Richard Elling <richard.ell...@gmail.com> wrote:
> OOB, the default OpenSolaris PATH places /usr/gnu/bin ahead
> of /usr/bin, so gnu tar is "the default." As of b130 (I'm not running
> an older build currently) the included gnu tar is version 1.22 which
> is the latest as released March 2009 at http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/
This causes Indiana to by default offer tar implementation that creates archives
that are in conflict with the POSIX standard.
Also note that GNU tar is unable to be used as a backup utility:
- It does neither support ACLs not any other file attributes.
- It failes even with simples modifications in the original filesystem
and people will become aware of this problem at the time when
they try to restore a backup that will not work in many cases.
> That is my understanding as well. It seems that the backup vendors
> are moving forward in a more-or-less vendor-specific way. This is
> not necessarily a bad thing, since there are open source solutions.
> But I see the requirements for backups being much more sophisticated
> than ufsdump was 25 years ago. hmmm... has ufsdump changed over
> the past 25 years? ;-)
ufsdump did (slightly) change as it now allows you to specify a subdirectory
instead of the whole filesystem.
But what features are you missing?
Jörg
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