Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 15:50:16 -0600 From: Jim Bryant <kc5vdj@yahoo.com> To: fergus <tofergus@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tar and nodump flag Message-ID: <3C06AD98.3070605@yahoo.com> References: <15363.38257.236253.85237@hyde.lpds.sublink.org> <20011127144343.W421-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de> <9u5ied$1fjf$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <20011129161126.C1163@dedog.argus-systems.co.uk>
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fergus wrote:
>>>- It doesn't support incremental backups. That isn't a problem in
>> itself, but it's a feature our GNU tar currently has and people
>> probably don't want to lose.
I dunno... The entire incremental thing in tar is dependant on NOT using compression,
which IMHO makes it pretty useless, especially if you prefer the much tighter software
compression you get from gzip.
jim
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