fsarchiver is a system tool that allows you tosave the contents of a filesystem to a compressed archive file. The filesystem can be restored on a partition that has a different size, and it canbe restored on a different filesystem. Unliketar/dar, fsarchiver also creates the filesystemwhen it extracts the data to partitions.Everything is checksummed in the archive in orderto protect the data. If the archive is corrupt,you just lose the current file, not the wholearchive.
License: GNU General Public License v2
Changes:
The compression ratio has been optimized for filesystems with many small files. Instead of compressing the data of each file in a separate block, multiple small files now share the same data block, which provides a better compression ratio. A bug regarding the unmount which is done at the end of the operation was fixed. The "-a" option was added, which allows you to ignore the check for the acl and user_xattr mount options when the user is doing a backup of a filesystem which is already mounted.
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03-02-2009
