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Anyone heard of "dar", the disk archiver?
Jul. 12th, 2007 10:41 pmIt's new to me.
Meant to be a more modern supplement to tar, aimed at archiving to multiple removable media, such as Zip disks. It's been suggested to me that this may be a more appropriate choice than tar or even dump. It handles segmented backups no problem, though it doesn't seem to directly address the problem of putting stuff onto FAT volumes, it should work. It numbers its own segments and given the base archive name will iterate automatically through them. It can be given a segment size and will work to it as a built-in option. It can also compress across segmented archives.
It's in Ubuntu's repositories and it seems to be current and maintained - I've installed it to have a look with a simple "apt-get install dar" - but its CLI is moderately fearsome. To a wuss like me, anyway. Seems to have reasonably helpful docs on the homepage.
http://dar.linux.free.fr/doc/index.html
Thoughts? Avoid 'cos it's relatively new and weird (dump were good enough for my great-grandad onto paper tape, magtape, eeee we used to DREAM of magtape, paper tape, PAPER TAPE, ha, we used to backup onto mercury delay lines reet across t'Pacific Ocean, aye), or go for it if it makes life easier?
Meant to be a more modern supplement to tar, aimed at archiving to multiple removable media, such as Zip disks. It's been suggested to me that this may be a more appropriate choice than tar or even dump. It handles segmented backups no problem, though it doesn't seem to directly address the problem of putting stuff onto FAT volumes, it should work. It numbers its own segments and given the base archive name will iterate automatically through them. It can be given a segment size and will work to it as a built-in option. It can also compress across segmented archives.
It's in Ubuntu's repositories and it seems to be current and maintained - I've installed it to have a look with a simple "apt-get install dar" - but its CLI is moderately fearsome. To a wuss like me, anyway. Seems to have reasonably helpful docs on the homepage.
http://dar.linux.free.fr/doc/index.html
Thoughts? Avoid 'cos it's relatively new and weird (dump were good enough for my great-grandad onto paper tape, magtape, eeee we used to DREAM of magtape, paper tape, PAPER TAPE, ha, we used to backup onto mercury delay lines reet across t'Pacific Ocean, aye), or go for it if it makes life easier?
