On Sunday 02 October 2005 20:57, David Leangen wrote: >Thanks again for all your help. Comments inline. > >> Well, I guess I'm convinced to try out tar > >Setting up tar was a snap, and there were no errors! > >One more perhaps silly question, but just something I'd like to > verify... > >I assume that the tar program is run on the client machine, so that >means I'll have to upgrade to the "ideal" version of tar on each client. > >Is my assumption correct?
Yup. >>>Our workaround was to use a GNU tar wrapper (2000+ lines of >>> >> > finely crafted Perl) for LVM volumes that created a snapshot >> > > > > and backed that up. We just ignored the access time problem > > > for file systems not under LVM control. >> >> Is something that is publicly available? If so, where could I >> > > find this? > >Any info on this? > >Thanks a lot! Most of that stuff is usually written on the spot, for that particular system. But why did the tar wrapper grow to 2000 lines? >Dave -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.