Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!rutgers!sri-unix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!desint!geoff From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: uucping whole trees? Message-ID: <279@desint.UUCP> Date: Sun, 21-Dec-86 16:43:58 EST Article-I.D.: desint.279 Posted: Sun Dec 21 16:43:58 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 22-Dec-86 02:50:15 EST References: <529@cdx39.UUCP> Reply-To: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) Organization: Interrupt Technology Corp., Manhattan Beach, CA Lines: 15 Keywords: uucp cpio links In article <529@cdx39.UUCP> jc@cdx39.UUCP (John Chambers) asks a long question about uucp-ing whole trees. Problems he mentions are: preserving links, free space for cpio output files, and keeping output files small enough to get reliable uucp performance. I sent John a long answer; if you'd like a copy write me and I'll send a copy. The gist is: links can be preserved by sorting by i-number; ls -s and a small shell script can then break the file list up into appropriately- sized chunks and cpio/compress/uucp them. You can even watch uucp spool space a la /usr/lib/acct/ckpacct, and suspend for a while if it gets full. My long answer contains most of an untested sh script to do this. -- Geoff Kuenning {hplabs,ihnp4}!trwrb!desint!geoff