> Hey folks,
>
> I'm reading up on gtar for tape archiving and it sounds kind of nasty and
> not something I really want to rely on.
>
> It looks like star from the schily tools is preferred. I'm using Centos
> (and RHEL) 5.7 which seems to have star but not sdd.
>
> Which leads me to believe that the Schily tools are maybe a bit "rogue"
>
> My basic requirement with what I'm doing is to use standard tools and
> formats so that archives I write today can be readable in 10 years.
>
> Is the use of Schily tools going to be contrary to my basic requirement?
> Is that considered a risk for future readability?
Use star like so :
star -c -p -acl -sparse -dump -fs=32m -fifostats -time \
-C /some_dir dir1 dir2 dir3 file=/dev/rmt/0mbn
or something like that will work like a charm and be POSIX spec compliant.
That means you can still read it in 20 years .. if the tape survives.
dc
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