21 Jan
2005
21 Jan
'05
6:08 a.m.
Rumor has it that Gordon JC Pearce may have mentioned these words:
Joe R. wrote:
Scary to say, but I think this has been around over 10 years, so it might
even be ontopic... The program 'taper' makes a decent front-end to tar --
I've used it before & it does allright.
Text based, but uses ncurses. Rather a bit like a 'midnight commander' for
backups. ;-)
Offtopically, if you want to back up a machine to bootable DVD for
restoring, mondo works well.
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers
They've all had their bugs, but
I have always found that the best of the lot is GNU tar. You get it free
when you blow away Windows and install a real OS. most of the explications and some of the
work-arounds are out there...
What's that? Buy a third party program?