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Project Release Information

2013-01-12 14:57
Better signal handling for NFS files, better handling for multi volume change operations, a workaround for incorrect buffer overflow messages from newer GCC versions, support for -xz and -lzip compression, many new -find operators, support for nanosecond timestamps on AIX, and several new supported platforms including cross compilation for Android.
2009-12-10 10:12
Many new platforms are supported. 64-bit compile support has been added for several platforms. A bug has been fixed that, under some constraints, printed the output on stderr instead of the expected stdout. Star -X name now works correctly. A workaround has been added for some POSIX violations introduced by POSIX.1-2008, and to deal with the problems
that have been introduced by POSIX.1-2008 compliant
platforms.
2008-04-14 14:05
CLI support was added for classical tar, cpio,
pax, and gnutar. Reliable incremental backup and
restore have been implemented using the basic
ideas from ufsdump and ufsrestore. A configurable
error control mechanism allows the user to
selectively ignore certain problems. Star now
implements a fast and reliable -copy option. Star
now implements true and efficient sparse file
support for Solaris 11 (and Solaris 10 updates).
Star now implements reliable multi-volume support
with automated tape end/size recognition. Star now
uses "libfind" and thus allows the use of find(1)
syntax in star command lines.
2008-03-20 12:40
star -version now prints the compile options. Star has been prepared for a future POSIX.1-2001 extended tar header keyword, "SCHILY.acl.type". Incremental dump mode now compares whether info->f_mtime >= Newer.tv_sec.
2008-03-04 16:34
The case of "star -f /dev/stdout" is caught and
star is still allowed to avoid adding the archive
file to the archive. The new diffopts=symperm
feature allows you to exclude comparing
permissions with symlinks.

Project Resources

http://freecode.com/urls/e179b50947124d332a8ff096c2e68d87
http://freecode.com/urls/0781cedca4f2aaf160235595baa9623b
http://freecode.com/urls/f102e11b737c3c486a19f9fa04ebd7c7
http://freecode.com/urls/d58b903f47e61d8d4f20c481944157d9
http://freecode.com/urls/042644bff50ee04dc219d7e1efc632db
http://freecode.com/projects/star

Project Description

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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