5 engineers on Hacker News describe using tar first-hand: 1 endorse it, 0 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“I shouldn't have to look at the man pages this regularly just to remember the letters I need to type”
mixed · personal · 10 yr · sweezyjeezy · 2022-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“stick to combinations of ZFS, rsync, and the trusty old tarball.”
endorse · personal · cookiecaper · 2019-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“tar makes a lot more sense if you use long options instead of completely cryptic short ones.”
mixed · personal · shmerl · 2017-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“what we use tar for every day (packing and unpacking archives on disk) is by design a strange corner case”
neutral · personal · bandrami · 2022-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It uses GNU `find` and `tar` on the client to do the heavy lifting of getting the files”
neutral · personal · derekp7 · 2014-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?