Re: tar, but not gnu tar

Thanks, Ken.

I just glanced at man page for star. It looks promising
and I will experiment with it. This may be the ticket.

Regards,

Tena
tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Marshall [mailto:ktm(at)rice(dot)edu]
Sent: Wed 8/22/2007 5:30 AM
To: Tena Sakai
Cc: Kevin Grittner; pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] tar, but not gnu tar

Tena,

We have been very happy with star. It is a very nice pax,
cpio, gnutar,... replacement. You may want to give it a try.

Ken

On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 06:53:53PM -0700, Tena Sakai wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> Yes, I have, but I am much more familiar with tar.
> I think I will go with the latest gnu tar (v 1.18)
> which is suggested by Bruce. I will play with it
> tomorrow and see how it goes.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Tena
>
> tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Grittner [mailto:Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov]
> Sent: Tue 8/21/2007 6:02 PM
> To: Tena Sakai; pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] tar, but not gnu tar
>
> >>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 7:28 PM, in message
> <FE44E0D7EAD2ED4BB2165071DB8E328C03062B59(at)egcrc-ex01(dot)egcrc(dot)org>, "Tena Sakai"
> <tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu> wrote:
> >
> > On my linux machine, gnu tar is the tar. Does
> > anybody have a suggestion as to where I can go
> > to get a tar that is not gnu?
>
> Have you considered using cpio instead?
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/
>
> -Kevin
>
>
>
>