Star is a very fast, POSIX-compliant tar archiver.
It saves many files together into a single tape or
disk archive, and can restore individual files
from the archive. It includes command line
interfaces for the "tar", "Sun-Tar", "cpio",
"pax", and "gnutar" command-line syntax. 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.
License: Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)
Changes:
CLI support was added for classical tar, cpio,
pax, and gnutar. Reliable incremental backup and
restore have been implemented using the basic
ideas from ufsdump and ufsrestore. A configurable
error control mechanism allows the user to
selectively ignore certain problems. Star now
implements a fast and reliable -copy option. Star
now implements true and efficient sparse file
support for Solaris 11 (and Solaris 10 updates).
Star now implements reliable multi-volume support
with automated tape end/size recognition. Star now
uses "libfind" and thus allows the use of find(1)
syntax in star command lines.
