From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LgKJZ-0002C9-AJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:49:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AB486E06A1; Sun, 8 Mar 2009 14:49:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.177]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79953E06A1 for ; Sun, 8 Mar 2009 14:49:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id j4so660650wah.2 for ; Sun, 08 Mar 2009 07:49:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ALUhWK7B7HXDgyytcxsuTRaFnMo/LyYKDsWMFBJZe8o=; b=M1DGbEPkwhRY/CKR+PE/KCdqZGBxHQIyE6R8ip/e/AgmABRlOmmehIWr7SZN4Dfhn4 xeP9Uiv1NHa3VTtZZstLG7XpZ/r+JTAgpa27NbN7z7BKUrtIJ+6mtDOR/YVG7laXgaKx w1vZIFftNuWrl0cUP3RtIvHDBnRW1iokEqOGY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=gIx1VuSyJ2hE8MlmR5MnYDl+ofttkwYZFz5gVRlreEv1lI1wCTfvb5Rrmr3jvZFIyV vINvDD40Z9UiQ1lFiHdz1jBbn7tLZY8stN3TFiJLgcXJ/gzRDLSmxwnpj+5KzECZycoM 8GBzuRt2GtwMedJzU8Y/eQE5zkNgQ0rgctV1M= Received: by 10.115.50.5 with SMTP id c5mr2904704wak.7.1236523755113; Sun, 08 Mar 2009 07:49:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?4.231.89.248? (dialup-4.231.89.248.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.231.89.248]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n40sm3125227wag.48.2009.03.08.07.48.48 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 08 Mar 2009 07:49:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49B3DAA4.5080909@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 09:48:04 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081227 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] backup program recommendations? References: <49B03C4F.1050701@gmail.com> <4e97d4190903070629w5e7583b8rf3af26dd76eb42a0@mail.gmail.com> <49B2A31A.5090700@gmail.com> <200903082110.06878.robin.atwood@attglobal.net> In-Reply-To: <200903082110.06878.robin.atwood@attglobal.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 30a986d1-c4b5-43fd-b437-475a14070f4e X-Archives-Hash: d0d5ac222701139cb8f3e91f6e238fb3 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 :-) :-)