Re: Replacement for tar: star ?

Miek, I couldn't agree with you more. Joerg is thinking about 
"traditional" backups where you want *everything* saved. And hdup is 
nowhere near "traditional" which is what makes it so great!

Thanks for all of your hard work.

Miek Gieben wrote:

> [On 18 Nov, @ 10:41, Kockaert wrote in "[hdup-user] Replacement for ta ..."]
> 
>>I have no time at the moment to look at the man page to tell you if star could 
>>help in your project, but here is the link...
>>http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/star.html
> 
> 
> I mailed with Joerg about using star for hdup. That was about a month
> ago - star 1.54 has some features needed for hdup. Having said that,
> star has a different backup philosophy than hdup. star works with
> filesystems as opposed to directories.
> 
> So you feed star a partition and that gets dumped, Joerg said that is
> _the_ way to do backups. I disagreed and said I just wanted to copy
> some data of a live filesystem.
> 
> Also, by using star you would need the latest and the greatest
> version of it - something you don't have to do with pax and gnu tar.
> 
> grtz Miek
>