Backing up to an external FAT32 disk

[Felipe Figueiredo]

On 7/12/07, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Felipe Figueiredo wrote:
> > It's a great program. Unfortunately, unmaintained.
>
> My understanding was that kdar itself is maintained, but libdar is a
> problem.

You are right about libdar, but AFAICT kdar is also unmaintained[1].
Their webpage/repo in sourceforge hasn't seen much activity since
2005[2,3]. Maybe they have a new address?


> Personally, I wish Ubuntu would adopt kdar/libdar and bring them
> up-to-date.

Second that.

Anyway, I used kdar to create my personal backup preferences, and used
its fine export option to see the exact command it would issue (it
creates a shell script). Then I lost my fear of the documentation. It
(dar) is really more scary than it should. It's just similar to tar,
in fact (IMO), so if one is used to tar, one should have no problem
with dar. In fact, I now suggest dar instead of tar, for everything
not tape related.

There are also many scripts in dar's page, for those who don't really
want to learn the syntax (or will not use it frequently enough as to
memorize it).

1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdar/+bug/94274
2. http://kdar.sourceforge.net/kdar-news.html
3. http://sourceforge.net/projects/kdar/