Rich Teer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Cool.  Can one selectively restore files from an archive created by
> Star?  For example, if I archive everything under /home/rich, can I
> just restore /home/rich/some/random/file?  What about with Star's
> competitors, tar, gtar, pax, and cpio?  (I guess I should investigate
> each of those tools one day!)

Star is the only portable and non fs-dependent archiver that supports 
incremental dumps, so I see no cometition....

Well, there is a program from David Korn that does not support ACLs and that
does _differential_ backups. But you cannot easily restore single files from a 
differantial backup.

Jörg

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