Joerg Schilling wrote: >>>>I'm trying to backup a system using dar + growisofs. >>> >>>dar? >> >>http://dar.linux.free.fr/ >>packet dar: >>Description: Disk ARchive: Backup directory tree and files >> Full featured archiver with support for differential backups, slices, >> compression, ATTR/ACL support. DAR also supports Pipes for remote >> operations, including with ssh. > > > So it does not support anything that cannot be done with star..... > > Note: dar is highly non-portable, its "./configure" script even fails > to run correctly to the end (it aborts somewhere in the middle). > > Dar uses a proprietary and thus non portable archive format. > I strongly encourage people not do do backups using an archive format > that has a high risk of being unreradable because of being proprietary. > > Backups made with star on the other side may be read back with any > POSIX compliant tar program. You only miss the ability to automatically > restore incremental backups in this case, but any single file may be retrieved > on any target platform using standard tools.
* star doesn't seem to be GPL, dar is * star doesn't seem to be distributed and packaged as debian package, dar is * star file format policy is public in his docs, even if it's not a standard; so I don't think you can say it's proprietary * my interest is in doing incremental backups, so star doesn't seem to be much more compliant * my interest is in doing slices for dvds, and have each of them be readable even if one is lost/unreadable. I didn't find wether star can achieve this; on the contrary I read that a tar achive splitted into chunks needs to be completely readable to restore a single file. * I have only 5Go free to backup 60Go of data, to be growing. I want to be able to archive and restore without loading the whole archive. * my question was: any idea why a correctly burned dvd cannot be mounted ? -- Jean-Christophe Michel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
