From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 16 15:41:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 886D937B423 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 15:41:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freyes@inch.com) Received: from miguel (miguel.reyes.somos.net [192.168.10.5]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA60457; Wed, 16 May 2001 18:40:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freyes@inch.com) Message-Id: <200105162240.SAA60457@sanson.reyes.somos.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "stellayu@ca.inter.net" , "Stephen Hovey" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 19:42:51 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195;1) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: simple back up method Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 16 May 2001 17:53:03 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Hovey wrote: > >I would forget tar and cpio (I had restoration >problems when using tape) - the thing Ive found >the most reliable that comes with freebsd is pax >email if you want a sample backup and restore line. Could I also get some samples too? While researching about pax found the URl below http://groups.google.com/groups?q=pax+backup&start=30&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rnum=34&ic=1&selm=90994t%24kl3%241%40kemoauc.mips.inka.de it seems that, at least at some point, tar,cpio and pax were not much different.I wonder how it has changed over time. Looking at the source tree for pax and cpio it is interesting how both have a number of files with the same name: cpio.h, cpio.c, tar.h, tar.c, etc.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message