-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 18.03.2010 14:12, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Darren J Moffat <darren.mof...@oracle.com> wrote: > >> So exactly what makes it unsuitable for backup ? >> >> Is it the file format or the way the utility works ? >> >> If it is the format what is wrong with it ? >> >> If it is the utility what is needed to fix that ? > > This has been discussed many times in the past already. > > If you archive the incremental "star send" data streams, you cannot > extract single files andit seems that this cannot be fixed without > introducing a different archive format. > > Star implements incremental backups and restores based on POSIX compliant > archives.
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