Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!killer!tness7!tness1!sugar!splut!jay From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Using tar for backups (Re: tar frustration) Message-ID: <659@splut.UUCP> Date: 21 Aug 88 00:01:24 GMT References: <1670003@hpcilzb.HP.COM> <5762@super.upenn.edu> <1990@stpstn.UUCP> <1288@ficc.UUCP> Reply-To: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX Lines: 15 In article <1288@ficc.UUCP> peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: >Why don't you use cpio instead of tar for backups? >Something like: >find $dir -newer $dir/.backup -print | cpio -ocv >/dev/rmt0 >touch $dir/.backup Modulo, of course, one particular well-known microcomputer software vendor's semi-well-known bug on overflowing the cpio backup beyond 15 output volumes... -- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC...>splut!< | Never ascribe to malice that which can uucp: uunet!nuchat! | adequately be explained by stupidity. hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!splut!jay +---------------------------------------- {killer,bellcore}!tness1! | Birthright Party '88: let's get spaced!