On Sunday 02 October 2005 20:57, David Leangen wrote:
>Thanks again for all your help. Comments inline.
>
>> Well, I guess I'm convinced to try out tar
>
>Setting up tar was a snap, and there were no errors!
>
>One more perhaps silly question, but just something I'd like to
> verify...
>
>I assume that the tar program is run on the client machine, so that
>means I'll have to upgrade to the "ideal" version of tar on each client.
>
>Is my assumption correct?

Yup.

>>>Our workaround was to use a GNU tar wrapper (2000+ lines of
>>>
>>  > finely crafted Perl) for LVM volumes that created a snapshot
>>  >
> >  > and backed that up.  We just ignored the access time problem
> >  > for file systems not under LVM control.
>>
>> Is something that is publicly available? If so, where could I
>>
> > find this?
>
>Any info on this?
>
>Thanks a lot!

Most of that stuff is usually written on the spot, for that
particular system.  But why did the tar wrapper grow to 2000 lines?

>Dave

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