On Apr 28, 2001, Daniel David Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It cuts 4 - 5 hours of my dumptimes.
> Tar definitely sucks in this respect. At my last job I had to use
> tar for some SAMBA backups. Definitely slowed things down a lot.
Samba backups are a completely different matter. GNU tar isn't even
involved in Samba backups (*); in retrospect, using it as the program
name to enable Samba backups was probably a mistake.
(*) even though it may be involved in index generation and in
restoring to Unix machines.
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