From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 26 18:41:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6500616A4E7 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:41:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54C2C43D5D for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:41:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [172.23.170.142] (helo=anti-virus02-09) by smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GSHrb-0008OO-Rm; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:41:03 +0100 Received: from [82.41.35.166] (helo=[192.168.0.2]) by asmtp-out1.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GSHeG-0005Ks-OE; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:27:16 +0100 Message-ID: <45197104.1020208@dial.pipex.com> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:27:16 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060515 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bob References: <200609261352.38059.bob@tania.servebbs.org> In-Reply-To: <200609261352.38059.bob@tania.servebbs.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tared by TAR X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:41:12 -0000 Bob wrote: >I went nuts, and got tar'ed and feathered with TAR. I have always used tar >with the -M option (--multi-volume) which allows you to span more than one >tape on a big ta archiver; but you won't find this -M option in BSD's TAR! >Nor will you find a proper man page, for BSD's port of gtar (gnutar) which I >THIINK is equivalent to Linux's tar. > > The manual page for gtar on FreeBSD 5.4 is about 30% longer than the one on a random Linux system I looked at, and looks like a proper man page to me. It mentions -M. Linux tar *is* gtar, though the specific version will of course vary between different Linuxes and different FreeBSDs. That aside, try "info tar" for full blown gory details of gnu tar. Also, for incremental backups, dump is easy to use, handles multi-tape archives and incrementals, and works on Live filesystems; but it does only work at the level of a filesystem not random directories. --Alex