Star
Platforms:
BeOS,
MacOS,
OS/2,
POSIX,
Windows 2000,
Windows 95/98,
Windows NT,
Windows XP
Categories:
Miscellaneous,
Network Utilities
Version: v1.5a21
URL: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/star.html
Star is a very fast, POSIX-compliant tar archiver. It reads and writes POSIX compliant tar archives as well as non-POSIX GNU tar archives. Star is the first free POSIX.1-2001 compliant tar implementation. It saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. 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 that hides Linux incompatibilities. The "rmt" server from the star package implements all Sun/GNU/Schily/BSD enhancements and allows any "rmt" client from any OS to contact any OS as server.