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| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/file-systems.scm | 16 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/file-systems.scm b/gnu/packages/file-systems.scm index 8ac5447466..293322c76b 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/file-systems.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/file-systems.scm @@ -88,10 +88,18 @@ ("xz" ,xz) ("zlib" ,zlib) ("zstd:lib" ,zstd "lib"))) - (synopsis "Filesystem Backup/Deployment Tool") - (description "FSArchiver allows you to save the contents of a file-system to -a compressed archive file. The file-system can be restored on a partition which -has a different size and it can be restored on a different file-system.") + (synopsis "File system back-up, deployment, and migration tool") + (description + "FSArchiver saves the contents of a file system to a compressed archive +file, and restores it to a different file system and/or partition. This +partition can be of a different size than the original and FSArchiver will +create a new file system if none exists. + +All standard file attributes supported by the kernel are preserved, including +file permissions, timestamps, symbolic and hard links, and extended attributes. + +Each file in the archive is protected by a checksum. If part of the archive +is corrupted you'll lose the affected file(s) but not the whole back-up.") (home-page "http://www.fsarchiver.org/") (license license:gpl2))) |