Re: GNU-Tar vs dump/restore ...

[The Hermit Hacker]

On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, John R. Jackson wrote:

> >what are ppl more partial to using?  ...
>
> This comes up here every once in a while and is basically a religious
> issue.
>
> The points you bring up, as well as being able to do subsets of an entire
> file system and portability, are all good reasons to use GNU tar.
>
> I won't use it here because it alters the access time, and the other
> benefits don't outweigh that, but that's just my own situation.

Oh, definitely a good point there ... another good one is that
incrementals don't work either, do they, with GNU-Tar?