<snip> > One is tar, and second is star.
Tar is the one you'll likely run into the most. Star is similar to tar, but has ACL support, so if you're using extended ACL support (requires a mount option to the file system) you get to keep all the fine grained permissions. This applies to about 1% of the user population*.
- This statistic was yanked directly from the southern orifice and
should not in any way be considered accurate
I have a bunch of Samba servers that need the ACL option to simulate a Windows server behaviour but i still use Tar for the backups. I just save my ACL with getfacl in a file prior to the tar itself. In such case i know that i'll be able to restore both file and ACLs even on a system that has only tar and not star ....
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