Tar as a backup solution (was Re: [WinMac] MacWorld Expo Report)

Leonard Rosenthol(leonardr[at]lazerware.com)
Mon, 26 Jul 1999 09:52:14 -0400

At 10:49 PM -0400 7/23/99, Michael bartosh wrote:
>Cron, tar, gzip and dump are excellent back up methods that are very
>much accepted and used in the Unix community.

        tar works, but just barely as a backup solution. The "just
barely" part is that it doesn't really support hierarchies (one of
the problems I have with ZIP as well) and that it doesn't support
maintaining file "attributes" (locked, etc.) or permissions.

        And this is ONLY dealing with UFS disks. Think about a
situation like OS X, where you can not only have UFS volumes mounted
but HFS, HFS+, FAT/FAT32, etc.

Leonard

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