Uberbackup is a simple to use, frontend for tar.
The restore piece is new in this release. yet to do is to implement the save feature of the log file. The button is there, but it does nothing.
I have included the source code (written in REALbasic under MacOS X) in case you want to play.
This is released under the GPL, so please respect that.
any questions, comments, hate mail should be directed to henry at crxohio dot org.