Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 17:26:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Martin Blapp <blapp@attic.ch> Cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org> Subject: Re: GNU-Tar should be updated Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980623172220.6388C-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <35900407.FC480B48@attic.ch>
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On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Martin Blapp wrote: > Something like that is really ugly, a unix that can't backup > it's own files ... something like that I only know from M$ ... tar is an add-on, and is not the standard backup tool, dump/restore is. dump/restore have their own problems, but backing up /dev is not one of them. Besides, some think that all GNU tars should be replaced with star which is much faster. Plus star generates real posix archives. pax is also a nice tar replacement. On BSDI, tar is just a link to pax. I'm pretty sure pax can backup up /dev > Martin > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Martin Blapp, (blapp@attic.ch) > Attic Internet Services, Bechburgstrasse 8, 4702 Oensingen, Switzerland > Phone: +41 62 396 43 70, Fax: +41 62 396 43 72 > PGP fingerprint: 4E96 1AE8 4AA6 AB40 1AD6 DB42 7623 995D 522A 1D38 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Public key available at: http://www.attic.ch/pgp-public.html Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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