Re: [gentoo-user] backup program recommendations?

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Robin Atwood wrote:
> 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
>   


That's good to know.  I was hoping it was fixed but did notice it was
masked still so I wasn't sure as to why.

May have to test it again now myself.

Dale

:-)  :-)