On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 03:50:00PM -0500, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > >- It doesn't support incremental backups. That isn't a problem in > > itself, but it's a feature our GNU tar currently has and people > > probably don't want to lose. > > It's a feature that is essential that FreeBSD doesn't lose IMO. Those > of us who use tar w/ amanda to backup FreeBSD boxes know how crucial the > ability to make incremental backups of filesystems can be.
GNUtar would always be available as a port. So that takes care of the amanda requirement. > Even my IRIX boxes come with > GNUtar 1.13 in the freeware distribution. Our base system having 1.11.2 > is unfortunate. If I make a test FreeBSD latest-GNUtar version, are you willing to test it out and tell me if it could go live? -- -- David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
