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 -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss