On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:31:26AM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> I came to the conclusion that tar was actually a faster way to do backups on
> the local system. Less CPU usage, and bandwidth is not a problem. YMMV.

But tar comes with a price: If you extract an archive, therefore
creating files with ctime in the past, they won't get picked up by
incremental backups.

I suppose, you already knew that...

Tino.

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