[PLUG] Backing up with tar

[Carlos Konstanski]

Don't let me talk you out of a good thing.  tar is a very solid backup
mechanism.  http://www.kernel.org, Gentoo Linux and Cygwin use bzips to
distribute their product.  I've switched to bzips after several years
of happily using rsync, mostly for the disk space savings.  If you have
the disk space, though, rsync has its advantages.  It's definitely worth
being familiar with both utilities.

Happy data shepherding!

Carlos Konstanski

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, John Jason Jordan wrote:

> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 12:46:52 -0700
> From: John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>
> Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;	civil and on-topic"
>     <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Backing up with tar
> 
> Thanks to Mjang and Carlos for the additional thoughts.
>
> I had  heard about rsync many times before I started with tar
> yesterday. It just always seemed so confusing, and the web resources
> made it even more confusing. After reading Carlos' comparison I have
> decided to put efforts with tar on hold for a bit. Instead I am going
> to use my handy-dandy new Linux Pocket Guide and see if I can figure
> out rsync. It sounds like it might be a better solution in the end.
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