From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: back up gentoo system
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 09:13:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200805070913.21032.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fvrh3l$26t$1@ger.gmane.org>
On Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> wrote:
> > There is nothing wrong with tar. In fact tar is great for this job. dd
> > not.
>
> Depends. If you backup to tape, like you do, then the Tape Archiver
> commonly called "tar" is the tool to use.
>
> But if a backup to disk is done, tar is still a good tool for the job,
> but IMO not the best tool available. Instead I'd suggest to use rsync.
> Reason: It's easier to restore just a single file.
>
> It's of course possible to restore single files from tar-balls as well,
> but it's more complicated. Especially, if you're using incrementals. I'm
> not saying that's impossible, but just, that it's harder than with rsync.
it is a matter of taste - but anyway everything is better than dd ;)
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2008-05-06 21:44 ` [gentoo-user] back up gentoo system David
2008-05-06 21:54 ` Andrew MacKenzie
2008-05-06 22:18 ` David
2008-05-06 22:32 ` Andrew MacKenzie
2008-05-06 22:41 ` Andrew MacKenzie
2008-05-06 22:52 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-05-07 6:09 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Schmarck
2008-05-07 7:13 ` Volker Armin Hemmann [this message]
2008-05-07 7:36 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-05-07 7:57 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-05-07 9:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-05-07 9:34 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-05-07 10:54 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-05-07 11:30 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-05-07 12:12 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-05-07 13:39 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-05-07 15:07 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-05-07 14:41 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Schmarck
2008-05-07 15:09 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-05-07 15:16 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Schmarck
2008-05-07 21:56 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-05-07 22:35 ` Mark Knecht
2008-05-08 7:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Schmarck
2008-05-08 9:24 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-05-08 11:21 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-05-08 12:49 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-05-08 14:00 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-05-08 14:38 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-05-09 13:40 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Schmarck
2008-05-09 14:02 ` Mark Knecht
2008-05-09 13:38 ` [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: " Michael Schmarck
2008-05-09 21:51 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-05-10 0:14 ` Ian Hilt
2008-05-10 6:07 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Schmarck
2008-05-10 8:44 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-05-10 15:31 ` Stroller
2008-05-10 19:02 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-05-10 21:42 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-05-10 23:02 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-05-11 8:05 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-05-10 21:42 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-05-12 13:07 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Schmarck
2008-05-12 13:37 ` Sandro Hannemann
2008-05-12 14:54 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Schmarck
2008-05-12 14:23 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2008-05-12 14:51 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Schmarck
2008-05-12 21:06 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-05-12 18:59 ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
2008-05-10 8:34 ` [gentoo-user] Re: Re: " Alan McKinnon
2008-05-07 6:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Schmarck
2008-05-07 16:04 ` [gentoo-user] " Steven Lembark
2008-05-06 21:55 ` Mark Knecht
2008-05-06 22:13 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-05-07 6:02 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Schmarck
2008-05-08 9:32 ` [gentoo-user] " András Csányi
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