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[Roger Merchberger]

Rumor has it that Gordon JC Pearce may have mentioned these words:
>Joe R. wrote:
>
>>  They've all had their bugs, but
>>
>>>most of the explications and some of the work-arounds are out there...
>>    What's that? Buy a third party program?
>
>I have always found that the best of the lot is GNU tar.  You get it free 
>when you blow away Windows and install a real OS.

Scary to say, but I think this has been around over 10 years, so it might 
even be ontopic...  The program 'taper' makes a decent front-end to tar -- 
I've used it before & it does allright.

Text based, but uses ncurses. Rather a bit like a 'midnight commander' for 
backups. ;-)

Offtopically, if you want to back up a machine to bootable DVD for 
restoring, mondo works well.

Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

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