[plug] Backups

[Michael Holland]

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Marc Wiriadisastra wrote:

> I've just been doing heaps of reading up and the majority of people are
> saying don't use tar because as its getting fed through programs such as
> tar and cpio it alters file systems if they are mounted as read write.

The atime? Not if you do it properly. See tar  --atime-preserve .

> stuff around apart from the 2GB file size limit but thats just how I set

Best to keep the files under 2GB anyway. See my previous post on isofs
problems. Tar can handle multi-volume archives.


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