Re: Re: dar output into tar format?
Sandro Dentella <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.dar.general |
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| Message-ID | <20040723083037.GA31594@bluff> |
> What I mean, is if you want to restore a directory why wouldn't you > restore the given directory and its contents directly for dar archive, > rather than making an intermediate tar archive from where you will be > able to restore the given directory. > > as you wrote earlier: > # I'm writing a webmin module that is an interface to retrieve files > # from a dar archive [...] > > if you base your webmin module on dar, you don't neither here control > the software people have on their PC. Moreover, if you don't controle > the software people have on their PC, how can you know they will have > tar while you assume they will have dar and use it for backup ? ;-) Well, popularity. While I sincerely appreciate dar and thik it addresses in a perfect way problems I had in setting up backups before "meeting" dar, I must recognize that many more people have tar (winzip for windows). moreover I don't see a mac port of dar, am I wrong? TYA sandro *:-) -- Sandro Dentella *:-) e-mail: [email protected] http://www.tksql.org TkSQL Home page - My GPL work ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click