On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:47 AM, John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com> wrote: > >> 'Deploying' amanda is a matter of installing the rpm and editing a >> couple of config files about the tape drive, tapes, targets, and >> holding space. And maybe some firewall tweaking - but nothing really >> complicated. You get a lot of coverage of 'real-world' problems >> already built in that will be hard to match in a new program, but you >> do have to think the way it does... > > An issue with tar is that if you have an error somewhere in > the tar... it is bad news... > afio compress files individually and has other nice things... > Maybe star does it too. In a practical sense, I don't know if that even matters. I've never seen a tape drive that could recover and read past an error in the input anyway. Maybe back in floppy disk days... -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com