Hard Drive Reshuffle
Gerald Combs
gerald at ethereal.com
Fri Apr 18 18:34:14 CDT 2003
On Fri, 18 Apr 2003, Steven Elling wrote:
> On Friday 18 April 2003 13:09, Gerald Combs wrote:
> > > Use tar instead.
> >
> > Are you sure? Pretend you're on a system that doesn't have GNU tar.
> > Now pretend you want to back up a file system with really long paths, lots
> > of files with holes in them, and a batch of named pipes. Traditional tar
> > implementations stink for all of these.
>
> What I meant to say was that if you are trying to backup a reiser file system
> use tar instead. Unless, there is something that will work better for
> backing up reiserfs provided it isn't a commercial product.
Maybe we need another bullet in the "Tar" section:
- GNU tar and "star" are good. Most others are suspect.
:)
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