Re: [CentOS] tar vs. star vs. something-else-I-don-t-know-about

["Fabian Arrotin" <fabian.arrotin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

><snip>
>> One is tar, and second is star.
>
> Tar is the one you'll likely run into the most. Star is similar to
> tar, but has ACL support, so if you're using extended ACL support
> (requires a mount option to the file system) you get to keep all the
> fine grained permissions. This applies to about 1% of the user
> population*.
>
> * This statistic was yanked directly from the southern orifice and
> should not in any way be considered accurate
>

I have a bunch of Samba servers that need the ACL option to simulate a
Windows server behaviour but i still use Tar for the backups. I just save
my ACL with getfacl in a file prior to the tar itself. In such case i know
that i'll be able to restore both file and ACLs even on a system that has
only tar and not star ....


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