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Prev-Msg Prev-Thread Gentoo-user May-2008 Next-Thread Next-Msg Subject: Re: back up gentoo system Group: Gentoo-user From: Michael Schmarck Date: 7 May 2008 Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann> wrote: > There is nothing wrong with tar. In fact tar is great for this job. dd > not. Depends. If you backup to tape, like you do, then the Tape Archiver commonly called "tar" is the tool to use. But if a backup to disk is done, tar is still a good tool for the job, but IMO not the best tool available. Instead I'd suggest to use rsync. Reason: It's easier to restore just a single file. It's of course possible to restore single files from tar-balls as well, but it's more complicated. Especially, if you're using incrementals. I'm not saying that's impossible, but just, that it's harder than with rsync. Best regards, Michael -- gentoo-user mailing list Prev-Msg Prev-Thread Gentoo-user May-2008 Next-Thread Next-Msg

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