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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] backup program recommendations?
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:49:17
Message-Id: 49B3DAA4.5080909@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] backup program recommendations? by Robin Atwood
1 Robin Atwood wrote:
2 > On Saturday 07 Mar 2009, Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 >> I seem to recall that Kdar or dar had a bug that lead to it being
6 >> masked. This was a while back so it may be fixed now but it may be
7 >> worth checking into to make sure. Nothing worse than thinking you have
8 >> backups when they are worthless.
9 >>
10 >
11 > Kdar became incompatible with later versions of libdarapi but then it was
12 > fixed and now works well again. Dar is extremely fast compared to tar,
13 > especially when restoring. It is probably best to use scripts to perform
14 > nightly backups (lots of examples on the web site) and the GUI for those
15 > times when you want to restore those couple of files you just munged. :)
16 > Dar also has options for running an external utility at the end of each
17 > backup 'slice', so writing the archive to DVD would be an option.
18 >
19 > HTH
20 > -Robin
21 >
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23
24 That's good to know. I was hoping it was fixed but did notice it was
25 masked still so I wasn't sure as to why.
26
27 May have to test it again now myself.
28
29 Dale
30
31 :-) :-)

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