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On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Robin Atwood wrote: |
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>> On Saturday 07 Mar 2009, Dale wrote: |
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>>> I seem to recall that Kdar or dar had a bug that lead to it being |
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>>> masked. This was a while back so it may be fixed now but it may be |
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>>> worth checking into to make sure. Nothing worse than thinking you have |
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>>> backups when they are worthless. |
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>> Kdar became incompatible with later versions of libdarapi but then it was |
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>> fixed and now works well again. Dar is extremely fast compared to tar, |
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>> especially when restoring. It is probably best to use scripts to perform |
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>> nightly backups (lots of examples on the web site) and the GUI for those |
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>> times when you want to restore those couple of files you just munged. :) |
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>> Dar also has options for running an external utility at the end of each |
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>> backup 'slice', so writing the archive to DVD would be an option. |
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>> HTH |
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>> -Robin |
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> That's good to know. I was hoping it was fixed but did notice it was |
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> masked still so I wasn't sure as to why. |
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> May have to test it again now myself. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Kdar looks to be what I needed. I will post reports after doing a full |
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out backup/restore test tomorrow |
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James Wall |
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