On Donnerstag 23 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > as I wrote above, you got me thinking. If I can extract a multivolume > > archive created with star with gnutar I am sold and will try star. I have > > to have a closer look at the -fifo/fs= options. The man page makes it > > look promising. > > Star implements aprox. twice as many features than GNU tar. Star is even > able to extract most if not all of those multi volume GNU tar archives that > GNU tar does not like (while not being able to verify whether the follow up > archive is the right one). Star intentionally does not implement write > support for GNU tar multi volume archives because the GNU tar format is not > a good idea. > > Jörg
ok, I tried star last night. Backup worked well, but I made some mistake with the exclude file. Now I have a backup of /sys as well. Won't kill me. The - FF... option + .exclude is a very nice feature. Will test restore early next week.
