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 1LgO7f-0000E6-0f for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:53:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A354E079C; Sun, 8 Mar 2009 18:53:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.251]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFAF1E079C for ; Sun, 8 Mar 2009 18:53:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c2so687010anc.1 for ; Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:53:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=VTtpoaFwKRJ4AKGGnnqPH4RbxvWh7fJnw6hl7qWkyKM=; b=Vbq+/8wR0T7KgvLXQ8A9UFXzEOoi2PQwbBXHCuoVy0EZyeUPMwB/Q37k8ZtQ+DXB2d +ddN2wiMw9E8GIye15co45XZH0YGkJVgxTT5nn3Ht7SXKdF+uaqsOLgQuvnlvFFFXj94 eYtQccgjjYnoHi9dNsq6MG3lrI/an99So1gyk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=rb7wQ255MJ9vjzvHqunnbInFBYX8xYj49E5cxDQkKL/GTKDsJQzyBPxPUFZ3STda6y QMRKWUd18scd5iEzqYwJHjCA2gLxvoYYQeXIlRsKV2jSYNfwJJdty86Zq8U4Jy1/TSUw PY6ipfkDsISNn4LvU547weTodblkzfaO/zAZU= 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 Received: by 10.100.134.10 with SMTP id h10mr3106612and.53.1236538393569; Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:53:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <49B3DAA4.5080909@gmail.com> References: <49B03C4F.1050701@gmail.com> <4e97d4190903070629w5e7583b8rf3af26dd76eb42a0@mail.gmail.com> <49B2A31A.5090700@gmail.com> <200903082110.06878.robin.atwood@attglobal.net> <49B3DAA4.5080909@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 13:53:13 -0500 Message-ID: <4e97d4190903081153v392acaf3m3d24c92734ac08a0@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] backup program recommendations? From: James Wall To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 5050a2ea-684d-44f5-9eff-f4fafb21dbc2 X-Archives-Hash: 9cf475abb37ccd3a5de0b595de06d02d On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Dale wrote: > 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. =A0This was a while back so it may be fixed now but it may be >>> worth checking into to make sure. =A0Nothing worse than thinking you ha= ve >>> backups when they are worthless. >>> >> >> Kdar became incompatible with later versions of libdarapi but then it wa= s >> 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. =A0I 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 > > :-) =A0:-) > > Kdar looks to be what I needed. I will post reports after doing a full out backup/restore test tomorrow James Wall