Archivation Software
This category gathers projects related to file archivation, i.e. creation and handling of files keeping a collection of files along with their metadata.
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File::BackupCopy
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Perl extension for creating backup file copies. Three backup naming schemes are supported: simple backup creates backup file name by appending single tilde character to the original file name, numbered backup creates backup name by suffixing the original file name with .~N~, where N is a decimal number. Finally, automatic backup selects numbered scheme if at least one numbered backup file already exists and falls back to the simple backup otherwise.
cpio
* Fix operation of --no-absolute-filenames --make-directories * Restore access and modification times of symlinks in copy-in and copy-pass modes.
GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive. The archive can be another file on the disk, a magnetic tape, or a pipe. GNU cpio supports a wide variety of archive formats.
paxutils
Paxutils is intended to provide a set of archiver programs. It will include tar and cpio utilities and will provide POSIX pax program.
tar
* Fail when building GNU tar, if the platform supports 64-bit time_t but the build uses only 32-bit time_t. * Leave the devmajor and devminor fields empty (rather than zero) for non-special files, as this is more compatible with traditional tar. * Bug fixes ** Fix interaction of --update with --wildcards. ** When extracting archives into an empty directory, do not create hard links to files outside that directory. ** Handle partial reads from regular files. ** Warn "file changed as we read it" less often. Formerly, tar warned if the file's size or ctime changed. However, this generated a false positive if tar read a file while another process hard-linked to it, changing its ctime. Now, tar warns if the file's size, mtime, user ID, group ID, or mode changes. Although neither heuristic is perfect, the new one should work better in practice. ** Fix --ignore-failed-read to ignore file-changed read errors as far as exit status is concerned. You can now suppress file-changed issues entirely with --ignore-failed-read --warning=no-file-changed. ** Fix --remove-files to not remove a file that changed while we read it. ** Fix --atime-preserve=replace to not fail if there was no need to replace, either because we did not read the file, or the atime did not change. ** Fix race when creating a parent directory while another process is also doing so. ** Fix handling of prefix keywords not followed by "." in pax headers. ** Fix handling of out-of-range sparse entries in pax headers. ** Fix handling of --transform='s/s/@/2'. ** Fix treatment of options ending in / in files-from list. ** Fix crash on 'tar --checkpoint-action exec=\"'. ** Fix low-memory crash when reading incremental dumps. ** Fix --exclude-vcs-ignores memory allocation misuse.
GNU tar is an archiver program. It is used to create and manipulate files that are actually collections of many other files; the program provides users with an organized and systematic method of controlling a large amount of data.