From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 29 13:54:58 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9602B16A4CE for ; Mon, 29 Dec 2003 13:54:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.via.net (mail.via.net [209.81.9.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD06243D2D for ; Mon, 29 Dec 2003 13:54:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@via.net) Received: from [209.81.2.10] (monk.via.net [209.81.2.10]) by mail.via.net (8.12.9p1/8.12.7) with ESMTP id hBTLst90075645; Mon, 29 Dec 2003 13:54:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@via.net) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 13:54:54 -0800 From: joe mcguckin To: , Tillman Hodgson Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <3FF08E87.2040003@acm.org> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: backing up ACLs X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 21:54:58 -0000 Will a 'modern' tar allow me to interactively browse through the save-set and arbitrarily select files to be restored? On 12/29/03 12:28 PM, "Tim Kientzle" wrote: > Tillman Hodgson wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 10:33:29AM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: >> >>> It's a tar implementation that handles ACLs, >>> file flags, sparse files, etc, etc, and might >>> be a workable substitute for dump/restore. >> >> With respect, tar variants are not a direct replacement for dump >> variants. I suspect that when you said "workable substitute" it should >> be read as "substitute requiring a fair amount of work" ;-) > > I should have said "might allow you to backup systems > using ACLs *today* while you wait for dump/restore > to be updated." Clearly, dump/restore do need to be > updated, and I did not intend to claim that > any tar implementation was a direct substitute for > any dump implementation. > > That said, however, if you're used to crufty old BSD tar > or crufty new GNU tar, you might be surprised at what a > good modern tar implementation can do. > > Tim > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >