[SunHELP] Incremental backups with tar

[James Fogg]

Ummm.. I believe tar has no compression at all. It's only an archiver. Tar used
with gzip will provide compression (those are the .tgz files).

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, THOU SPAKE:
> Hi all
> 
> Can u tell me what the compression rate with tar ,
> And also how to take incremental backups with tar .
> Tar  cvf will take the full backup , how do i take incremental backups
> 
> thanks
> kumar
>