Jim Bryant wrote: > > fergus wrote: > > >>>- It doesn't support incremental backups. That isn't a problem in > >> itself, but it's a feature our GNU tar currently has and people > >> probably don't want to lose. > > I dunno... The entire incremental thing in tar is dependant on NOT using >compression, > > which IMHO makes it pretty useless, especially if you prefer the much tighter >software > > compression you get from gzip.
You must be thinking of something different than what I was thinking of. GNU tar has an option --incremental <file> (or --listed-incremental) that is unaffected by the use of gzip AFAIK. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
