Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption. | Date | Sat, 28 Apr 2001 15:20:40 +0200 | From | Olaf Titz <> |
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> or such. tar/cpio and friends don't deal properly with > a. holes inside of files. > b. hardlinks between files.
GNU tar handles both of these. (Not particularly efficiently in the case of sparse files, but that's a minor issue in this case.) See -S flag.
Perhaps more importantly, for a _robust_ backup solution which can deal with partially unreadable tapes, you have pretty much no option other than tar for the actual storage.
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