backing up ACLs

[joe mcguckin]

Will a 'modern' tar allow me to interactively  browse through the save-set
and arbitrarily select files to be restored?



On 12/29/03 12:28 PM, "Tim Kientzle" <kientzle at acm.org> wrote:

> Tillman Hodgson wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 10:33:29AM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote:
>> 
>>> It's a tar implementation that handles ACLs,
>>> file flags, sparse files, etc, etc, and might
>>> be a workable substitute for dump/restore.
>> 
>> With respect, tar variants are not a direct replacement for dump
>> variants. I suspect that when you said "workable substitute" it should
>> be read as "substitute requiring a fair amount of work" ;-)
> 
> I should have said "might allow you to backup systems
> using ACLs *today* while you wait for dump/restore
> to be updated."  Clearly, dump/restore do need to be
> updated, and I did not intend to claim that
> any tar implementation was a direct substitute for
> any dump implementation.
> 
> That said, however, if you're used to crufty old BSD tar
> or crufty new GNU tar, you might be surprised at what a
> good modern tar implementation can do.
> 
> Tim
> 
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