On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 18:23, Alexey Loukianov wrote: > I would like to know, what are the differences between them? Which > one should I use in the future? Is star compatible with amanda backup > suite (I use amanda as a main backup software solution for our > production environment servers)? Amanda needs the --listed-incremental mode of GNU tar. Star has some different extensions but won't work with amanda. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com