backing up ACLs

[harti brandt]

joe mcguckin wrote:

>Will a 'modern' tar allow me to interactively  browse through the save-set
>and arbitrarily select files to be restored?
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As far as I know star as well as even the old v7 tar has an interactive 
mode,
that even allows you to change the filename that is to be restored. It's 
not point-'n-click
of course.

harti

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>On 12/29/03 12:28 PM, "Tim Kientzle" <kientzle at acm.org> wrote:
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>>Tillman Hodgson wrote:
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>>>On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 10:33:29AM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote:
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>>>>It's a tar implementation that handles ACLs,
>>>>file flags, sparse files, etc, etc, and might
>>>>be a workable substitute for dump/restore.
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>>>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" ;-)
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>>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.
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>>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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