You wrote:


>tar won't get ACLs.  An FS specific dump program probably will.

>> If i must use star instead of tar, where i must configure this?
>> (which entry in which file?)

>I don't know if star is drop-in replaceable for tar.  ISTR that it only 
>does one level of incrementals, which amanda won't like if it needs to 
>bump some backups.

Star is a drop in replacement for tar but GNU tar unfortunately is not,
so star will not be able to replace GNU tar......

Many things that Amanda does are better handled by star directly.

-       Buffereing to the tape (star includes a FIFO)

-       error control.
        Star allows you to specify pairs of error conditions and file name 
        patterns that cause a specific error condition to be suppressed.

.... There are others, see ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star for more information.

Star recently started to support 'true incremental backups' similar to what
ufsdump does. There is not yet support for incremental restores if a file
is removed (and the restored tree should not include this file), if a file 
changed its type and if a file has been renamed.


Jörg

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