Re: xfsdump & compression? (was: Re: xfsdump aborts after assertion failure)

[Ede Wolf <listac@nebelschwaden.de>]

If I understand right, star (a tar "successor") is able to handle ACLs 
and is supposed to have other advantages like improved speed and a fifo 
buffer. Though not yet personally tested.
 
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/star.html 


Info is inside the tarball, none on the page. Just in case you wonder.

Btw.: talking about xfsdump: Is there a tool/addon that writes a tape 
catalog, so I can locate data without a tape beeing inserted ? The 
contents of /var/xfsdump seems more some kind of meta-data.Would be 
really nice to be able to browe some kind of database to see on which 
tapes what files are located.


> Well, if you aren't using ACLs or other extended attribute information,
> then you could use any generic backup utility like tar, cpio, bru, etc.
> (Hopefully the generic utilities will start handling these things now that
> the interfaces are defined.)