December 27, 2008

GNU tar 1.21 (Release branch)

GNU `tar’ saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. It includes multivolume support, the ability to archive sparse files, automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives and special features that allow `tar’ to be used for incremental and full backups. It also includes `rmt’, the remote tape server (the `mt’ tape drive control program is in GNU `cpio’).

License: GNU General Public License v3

Changes:
This release adds new options: –lzop, –no-auto-compress, and –no-null. It has compressed format recognition and VCS support (–exclude-vcs). It fixes the –null option and fixes record size autodetection.