[plug] 'best fit' data archiving tools

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On 9/19/05, Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 14:58 +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> > On 9/19/05, Ryan <ryan at is.as.geeky.as> wrote:
> > > I'm not sure how to name what I want ...
> > I'm pretty sure that TAR does what your after (or close to it)... See
> > if you can find some "Advanced uses of TAR" on the web..
> 
> DAR (Disk Archiver) does something similar - you can specify the chunk
> sizes to split it into. I'm not sure what the output looks like, though.
> 
> Disclaimer: I've never used it - a friend used to, but I haven't seen
> him in a while, so ....


I've used DAR. It's works well and the documentation is excellent.


>
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Regards,
Russ
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