13 Sep
1999
13 Sep
'99
9:01 p.m.
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Chuck McManis wrote:
Well if you're going to be that way about it.
Short answer : use CPIO
A good choice, since it's so widely compatible and is very flexible. Nice
for backups to tapes because you can specify 5120 bytes/record input
blocks. Also nice because you can actually do *full* backups with things
like device files, etc (tar won't do device files). I think the most
important thing, though, is the recovery from bad blocks - which kills a
tar restore...
Longer answer : ../src/gnu/usr.bin/tar
make it do anything you want :-)
Now you're talking...