Re: tar vs

2007-03-17 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 03:11:22PM -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > On 3/17/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 03/17/07 12:33, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > Pardon me if I say something stupid, but I don't know why tar cannot just > 1)run the .tar.rz file through

Re: tar vs

2007-03-17 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On 3/17/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/07 12:33, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: >> >> - tar has been around forever >> - tar is standard on pretty much every *nix system (which GNU tar >>becoming more common even on com

Re: tar vs

2007-03-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 13:26:40 -0400 Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:16:04 +0200 > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:08:08 -0400 > > Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: tar vs

2007-03-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/07 12:33, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: >> >> - tar has been around forever >> - tar is standard on pretty much every *nix system (which GNU tar >>becoming more common even on commercial Unices) > > Tar is easily available even on W

Re: tar vs

2007-03-17 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
- tar has been around forever - tar is standard on pretty much every *nix system (which GNU tar becoming more common even on commercial Unices) Tar is easily available even on Windows. Good programs like 7-zip and many, many others, can handle tar well. - gzip provides better compression th

Re: tar vs

2007-03-17 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:16:04 +0200 Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:08:08 -0400 > Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > What is Linuxs "obsession" with tar ? What is (are) the advantage > > (s) of tar

Re: tar vs

2007-03-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:08:08 -0400 Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:59:01AM EST, Adam Porter wrote: > > I've read the man page, googled this list and the rest of the Net, but I > > still can't figure out

Re: tar vs

2007-03-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/07 11:08, Frank McCormick wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:59:01AM EST, Adam Porter wrote: >> I've read the man page, googled this list and the rest of the Net, but I >> still can't figure out why this doesn't work: > >> $ tar xjf *.tar

Re: tar vs

2007-03-17 Thread Thomas Jollans
On Saturday 17 March 2007 17:08, Frank McCormick wrote: > What is Linuxs "obsession" with tar ? What is (are) the advantage(s) of > tar over ZIP/RAR for example. it works, that's all. ZIP and RAR aren't available everywhere and, AFAIK, are unable to represent UNIX permissions. Also, the separ

Re: tar vs

2007-03-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 12:08:08PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:59:01AM EST, Adam Porter wrote: > > I've read the man page, googled this list and the rest of the Net, but I > > still can't figure out why this doesn't work: > > > > $ tar xjf *.tar.bz2 > > tar: beryl

tar vs

2007-03-17 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:59:01AM EST, Adam Porter wrote: > I've read the man page, googled this list and the rest of the Net, but I > still can't figure out why this doesn't work: > > $ tar xjf *.tar.bz2 > tar: beryl-core-0.2.0.tar.bz2: Not found i

Re: tar vs dpkg --get-selections for backup scheme

2003-09-27 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op do 25-09-2003, om 02:08 schreef Erik Steffl: > Benedict Verheyen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > my server setup is nearing completion and of course i want to save my > > hard work in case something goes wrong. Since i have problems in the > > past with various backup programs like mondo to name one, i

Re: tar vs dpkg --get-selections for backup scheme

2003-09-26 Thread Erik Steffl
Benedict Verheyen wrote: Hi, my server setup is nearing completion and of course i want to save my hard work in case something goes wrong. Since i have problems in the past with various backup programs like mondo to name one, i want to keep it simple this time so a moronic me can understand whats

tar vs dpkg --get-selections for backup scheme

2003-09-24 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, my server setup is nearing completion and of course i want to save my hard work in case something goes wrong. Since i have problems in the past with various backup programs like mondo to name one, i want to keep it simple this time so a moronic me can understand whats happening :) 1) Method 1

Re: Backup Script - tar vs rsync

2002-10-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya alan one day... i'll go play with --backup option to rsync - another to add to the todo list from when i was using rsync, i think the default is NOT to do a delete ... that if its deleted from the master, that the rsync target does NOT delete it too rsync --delete will del

Re: Backup Script - tar vs rsync

2002-10-21 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 22 October 2002 3:12 am, Alvin Oga wrote: > rsync .> possible bad stuff > - if the master erased foo.txt, the backup will also be erased Not if you use the --backup --backup-dir options. In fact I use these to create an incre

Re: Backup Script - tar vs rsync

2002-10-21 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Auke Jilderda wrote: > On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 12:19:11PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > Read the following page, then modify the associated script to your > > system. It's geared toward tape. For drive-to-drive, I'd suggest rsync > > rather than tar. > Why? that