On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 11:01 -0700, Robin Laing wrote: > Guillaume wrote: > > hi, > > > > actually, I use the tar utility to backup my fedora box to a file... > > After a full backup file is reach near 8GB, and when I want to restore > > some backuped files, it take veeerrrryyy long time (more than 1h30) to > > analyse/index the file and extract the needed folders. Is there a way > > to speed up the restore process with any options to tar, or, any other > > command utility to use for my backup. > > > > Thanks for your help. > > > > Our system admin likes backupPC > > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > > He uses it at work and home. And BackupPC is already packaged for Fedora 'yum install BackupPC'. Brian
