Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is nothing wrong with tar. In fact tar is great for this job. dd > not.
Depends. If you backup to tape, like you do, then the Tape Archiver commonly called "tar" is the tool to use. But if a backup to disk is done, tar is still a good tool for the job, but IMO not the best tool available. Instead I'd suggest to use rsync. Reason: It's easier to restore just a single file. It's of course possible to restore single files from tar-balls as well, but it's more complicated. Especially, if you're using incrementals. I'm not saying that's impossible, but just, that it's harder than with rsync. Best regards, Michael -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
