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Star is a very fast, POSIX-compliant tar archiver, maintained for more than 30 years. It saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. It includes command line interfaces for the "tar", "Sun-Tar", "cpio", "pax", and "gnutar" command-line syntax. It includes a FIFO for speed, a pattern matcher, multi-volume support, the ability to archive sparse files and ACLs, the ability to archive extended file flags, automatic archive format detection, automatic byte order recognition, automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives, and special features that allow star to be used for full and incremental backups. It includes the only known platform independent "rmt" server program.

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2003-10-17 09:55
1.5a31

Due to the fact that ReiserFS on Linux does not update
st_ctime with rename(2), the SCHILY.dino POSIX.1-2001
extension has been introduced to allow incremental
backups with ReiserFS too. A workaround for a Mac OS X/
FreeBSD inconsistency in timeval.tv_sec vs. time_t was
added. A new option, -xdot, allows users to selectively
unconditionally restore the '.' directory from the archive.
-j was added as a -bz alternative to the star command
line interface to make GNU tar users happy. A bug in
POSIX.1-2001 extended header handling that could cause
corrupt headers if a text entry became shorter then
guessed was fixed.
Tags: Development, Major feature enhancements

2003-10-13 10:25
1.5a30

This release features the first complete
multi-volume implementation that splits files
across media and verifies media correctness via
volume labels on readback. Tape change on write
can now be triggered by auto-detecting physical
EOM, making it possible to use compressed tapes.
Tags: Development, Major feature enhancements

2003-10-06 09:48
1.5a29

A POSIX.1-2001 based volume header system was
added with many SCHILY.volhdr.* tags, which will
be used with future versions of star to verify
multi-volume media and incremental dumps.
Archive type name handling has been globaly
unified. Incremental Dump Archive management now
deals with microsecond granularity.
Tags: Development, Major feature enhancements

2003-09-29 13:21
1.5a28

'g'lobal POSIX.1-2001 extended headers are now
supported and a "SCHILY.release" POSIX.1-2001
tag is created if in extended mode. An attempt
to support multi-volume archives with
auto-detected End Of Tape (tape size) was added,
which is needed to use compressed tapes. A new
-no-dirslash option does not add a slash to the
end of each directory. suntar now supports -P
via -no-dirslash. The -bsdchdir option was
fixed, and a bug that prevented -C dir but
allowed only C=dir was fixed. gnutar now prints
identical verbose outout to the real GNU tar if
in 'x' or 'c' mode.
Tags: Development, Major feature enhancements

2003-09-23 12:59
1.5a27

A new "gnutar" program gives the GNU tar command
line syntax, and a new -multivol option gives a
first step towards multi-volume support with
automated tape size recognition. The suntar,
gnutar, scpio, and spax programs now use a
unique option validator. New -0..-7 options that
refer to abstract tape device entries in /etc/
default/star were added along with a -Z,
compress-program= option and a -bsdchdir option
that changes the -C behavior.
Tags: Development, Major feature enhancements

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