Mike Kazantsev <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems that tar/gzip/bzip2 are almost universal solutions for > unix-like system backups and we're using tar/gz combo to create backups > from the dawn of times. > But as the time goes by I stumble upon two misfits of such a combination > more and more:
People on Linux who use the term "tar" are usually not talking about tar bug about "gtar" which is not 100% tar compatible and thus creates problems with archive interchange. > So I thought there's gotta be something that fits these criterias, but > so far I've found only "dar" and it seems quite slow and a bit unsuited > for these needs. dar is using a nonstandard and proprietary archive format. Did you look at star? Star is the oldest free tar implementation. It is 100% compatible to the standard and allows you to do incremental backups based on the POSIX.1-2001 archive format. Star includes support for all additional meta data. Any at least POSIX.1-2001 compliant archiver is able to read the archives written by star and if you are ever need to restore a star based backup with a different program, you only loose the ability to do incremental restores that deal with renamed/removed files. ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/ The latest development source is in the "schily" source bundle at: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily/ Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
