GUI backup manager?

[Sean Hammond]

There is a spec for a 'home user backup' GUI tool, frontend to dar,
that was a goal for Edgy but doesn't seem to have been reached. See my
other thread that I just started. There is kdar -- a KDE frontend to
dar, that looks complete. Available in Ubuntu.

On 10/11/06, rpowersau at gmail.com <rpowersau at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/11/06, stude.list at googlemail.com <stude.list at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On 11/10/06, rpowersau at gmail.com <rpowersau at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Well, one small diff. zip or tar will compress the files. An iso is
> > > uncompressed.
> > erm, technically isn't tar uncompressed?
> > its just the tar program can use gzip or bzip to provide compression
> > of the tar file.
>
> Yes, tar doesn't have to compress. Though I've never used it as such.
> And used in the context with zip, I would assume compression. But
> maybe there are people who use it without compressing.
>
> But the point was that an iso is not compressed. So it certainly isn't
> the same as zip.
>
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