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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
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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.
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	Geoff Kuenning
	{hplabs,ihnp4}!trwrb!desint!geoff