Re: [gentoo-user] backup program recommendations?

[Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@attglobal.net>]

On Saturday 07 Mar 2009, Dale wrote:

> I seem to recall that Kdar or dar had a bug that lead to it being
> masked.  This was a while back so it may be fixed now but it may be
> worth checking into to make sure.  Nothing worse than thinking you have
> backups when they are worthless.

Kdar became incompatible with later versions of libdarapi but then it was 
fixed and now works well again. Dar is extremely fast compared to tar, 
especially when restoring. It is probably best to use scripts to perform 
nightly backups (lots of examples on the web site) and the GUI for those 
times when you want to restore those couple of files you just munged. :)
Dar also has options for running an external utility at the end of each 
backup 'slice', so writing the archive to DVD would be an option.

HTH
-Robin
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