From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 30 09:53:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 348CE16A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2003 09:53:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de (mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de [193.174.154.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECB7843D1F for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2003 09:53:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brandt@fokus.gmd.de) Received: from fokus.gmd.de (dial-29 [193.174.152.226])hBUHpZL09229; Tue, 30 Dec 2003 18:51:36 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <3FF1BBB5.4020409@fokus.gmd.de> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 18:53:57 +0100 From: harti brandt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: joe mcguckin References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 18:17:39 -0800 cc: Tillman Hodgson cc: FreeBSD cc: kientzle@acm.org Subject: Re: backing up ACLs X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 17:53:35 -0000 joe mcguckin wrote: >Will a 'modern' tar allow me to interactively browse through the save-set >and arbitrarily select files to be restored? > > > As far as I know star as well as even the old v7 tar has an interactive mode, that even allows you to change the filename that is to be restored. It's not point-'n-click of course. harti > >On 12/29/03 12:28 PM, "Tim Kientzle" wrote: > > > >>Tillman Hodgson wrote: >> >> >>>On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 10:33:29AM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>It's a tar implementation that handles ACLs, >>>>file flags, sparse files, etc, etc, and might >>>>be a workable substitute for dump/restore. >>>> >>>> >>>With respect, tar variants are not a direct replacement for dump >>>variants. I suspect that when you said "workable substitute" it should >>>be read as "substitute requiring a fair amount of work" ;-) >>> >>> >>I should have said "might allow you to backup systems >>using ACLs *today* while you wait for dump/restore >>to be updated." Clearly, dump/restore do need to be >>updated, and I did not intend to claim that >>any tar implementation was a direct substitute for >>any dump implementation. >> >>That said, however, if you're used to crufty old BSD tar >>or crufty new GNU tar, you might be surprised at what a >>good modern tar implementation can do. >> >>Tim >> >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >