Backing up Ubuntu

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 9:06 AM Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woitok at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> On Wednesday, 2019-07-03 19:33:57 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
> > ...
> > Dar because it offers incremental backups, unlike tar, and is designed
> for
> > seekable media for speed.
>
> Although I did not closely follow this thread,  I think I've seen a sim-
> ilar remark regarding "tar" before.  Just for the record:
>
> The good ol' GNU "tar" programme  DOES in fact support incremental back-
> ups, see its "--listed-incremental" option.  And it does so for ages.
>
> Sincerely,
>   Rainer
>
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I missed that, but I'm still looking at dar because of the index file
supporting a lack of need to read the whole archive to extract a single
file.  Does GNU tar do that?
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Kevin O'Gorman
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