S tar

Star is a very fast, POSIX-compliant tar archiver. 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 "tar", "Sun-Tar", "cpio", "pax", and "gnutar".

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 let it be used for full and incremental backups. It includes the only known platform independent "rmt" server program.

Last updated 2 Aug, 2005


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1.5a64

1.5a64 devel released 2005-08-02

  • Released: 2 Aug, 2005
  • Code Maturity: Developmental
1.4.3

1.4.3 stable released 2003-02-17

  • Released: 17 Feb, 2003
  • Code Maturity: Stable
  • Source Archive: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/star-1.4.3.tar.gz
  • Licenses: GPLv2orlater
  • Interfaces: Command Line

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