Rich Teer wrote
> Now suppose that I accidentally delete a couple of those files; it is very
> desirable to be able to restore just a certain named subset of the files
> in an archive rather than having to restore the whole archive. I'm looking
> for a tool that can do that.
Now if Joerg wasn't
Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Rich Teer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>> People who like to backup usually also like to do incremental backups.
>>> Why don't you?
>> I do like incremental backups. But the ability to do incremental backups
>> and restore arbitrary files from an archive are two differen
Rich Teer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > People who like to backup usually also like to do incremental backups.
> > Why don't you?
>
> I do like incremental backups. But the ability to do incremental backups
> and restore arbitrary files from an archive are two different things. An
> incremental
On Feb 24, 2008, at 01:49, Jonathan Loran wrote:
> In some circles, CDP is big business. It would be a great ZFS
> offering.
ZFS doesn't have it built-in, but AVS made be an option in some cases:
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/avs/
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On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, michael schuster wrote:
> that's been in tar since I can remember; from the man-page of tar(1):
>
> x
>
> Extract or restore. The named files are extracted from
> the tarfile and written to the directory specified in
> the tarfile, relativ
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Incremental backups aren't what I'm talking about. I'm talking about
> > the ability to retrieve one or more distinct files from an archive,
> > without having to restore the whole archive, like one can do with
> > ufsrestore.
>
> The OP was intere
Rich Teer wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>
>> Star is the only portable and non fs-dependent archiver that supports
>> incremental dumps, so I see no cometition
>
> Incremental backups aren't what I'm talking about. I'm talking about
> the ability to retrieve one or mo
Rich Teer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>
> > Star is the only portable and non fs-dependent archiver that supports
> > incremental dumps, so I see no cometition
>
> Incremental backups aren't what I'm talking about. I'm talking about
> the ability
