Chris Siebenmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | My impression is that the "only" real problem with incrementals from
> | ufsdump or star is that you would like to have a database that tells
> | you in which incremental a specific file with a specific time stamp
> | may be found.
>
> In our situation here, this is done by the overall backup system
> driving ufsdump et al (Amanda in our case). I think this is the best
> way, because you don't necessarily want to keep the index on the machine
> that you are backing up.
You would need to push the Amanda people to support star if you like to backup
a filesystem other than UFS. Currently Amanda will use GNU tar with all well
known problems with GNU tar based backups (e.g. GNU tar will not always accept
it's own archives for restore).
Jörg
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