Robin Atwood wrote: > On Saturday 07 Mar 2009, Dale wrote: > > >> I seem to recall that Kdar or dar had a bug that lead to it being >> masked. This was a while back so it may be fixed now but it may be >> worth checking into to make sure. Nothing worse than thinking you have >> backups when they are worthless. >> > > Kdar became incompatible with later versions of libdarapi but then it was > fixed and now works well again. Dar is extremely fast compared to tar, > especially when restoring. It is probably best to use scripts to perform > nightly backups (lots of examples on the web site) and the GUI for those > times when you want to restore those couple of files you just munged. :) > Dar also has options for running an external utility at the end of each > backup 'slice', so writing the archive to DVD would be an option. > > HTH > -Robin >
That's good to know. I was hoping it was fixed but did notice it was masked still so I wasn't sure as to why. May have to test it again now myself. Dale :-) :-)
