Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 11:26:25 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> Cc: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tar and nodump flag Message-ID: <20011203112625.A28547@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20011129153648.P33262-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>; from bandix@looksharp.net on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 03:50:00PM -0500 References: <9u5ied$1fjf$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <20011129153648.P33262-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>
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On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 03:50:00PM -0500, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Christian Weisgerber 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. > > It's a feature that is essential that FreeBSD doesn't lose IMO. Those > of us who use tar w/ amanda to backup FreeBSD boxes know how crucial the > ability to make incremental backups of filesystems can be. GNUtar would always be available as a port. So that takes care of the amanda requirement. > Even my IRIX boxes come with > GNUtar 1.13 in the freeware distribution. Our base system having 1.11.2 > is unfortunate. If I make a test FreeBSD latest-GNUtar version, are you willing to test it out and tell me if it could go live? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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