GUI backup tools (was Re: Destroying "only" your home directory)

Wed Apr 5 22:56:06 UTC 2006

On Wed, 2006-05-04 at 12:41 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:

> > Instead we get what appears to be a brain-dead
> > wrapper around tar/gzip/mkisofs.

> Now that's both gratuitously insulting _and_ shows that you didn't read the
> proposal.  They're definitely not proposing to use tar.

Sorry.  A brain-dead wrapper around dar/gzip/mkisofs.  I was thinking
dar and typing tar.  My bad.

At least they picked a back-end that has potential to someday be a
serious backup system.

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