Rich Teer wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>
>> Star is the only portable and non fs-dependent archiver that supports
>> incremental dumps, so I see no cometition....
>
> Incremental backups aren't what I'm talking about. I'm talking about
> the ability to retrieve one or more distinct files from an archive,
> without having to restore the whole archive, like one can do with
> ufsrestore.
that's been in tar since I can remember; from the man-page of tar(1):
x
Extract or restore. The named files are extracted from
the tarfile and written to the directory specified in
the tarfile, relative to the current directory.
HTH
Michael
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