Backing up Ubuntu

Thu Jul 4 16:04:11 UTC 2019

Greetings,

On Wednesday, 2019-07-03 19:33:57 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

> ...
> Dar because it offers incremental backups, unlike tar, and is designed for
> seekable media for speed.

Although I did not closely follow this thread,  I think I've seen a sim-
ilar remark regarding "tar" before.  Just for the record:

The good ol' GNU "tar" programme  DOES in fact support incremental back-
ups, see its "--listed-incremental" option.  And it does so for ages.

Sincerely,
  Rainer