Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:40:19 -0700 From: Lawrence Sica <larry@interactivate.com> To: James Howard <howardjp@glue.umd.edu>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup file formats: tar, cpio, pax, yadda, yadda, yadda Message-ID: <0.996169219@feh> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0107261309400.837-100000@z.glue.umd.edu> References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0107261309400.837-100000@z.glue.umd.edu>
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> > Let's review. All the tar formats will truncate long filenames. All the > cpio formats truncate the inode number. Is there a reasonable backup tool > which does not do goofy things like that? > Ive always been partial to dump/ufsdump myself. And gnu tar will handle longfiles names. There was a usenix paper on backup programs, they found dump to be the best at the time. --Larry > Jamie > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message Lawrence Sica --------------------------------- Systems Administrator - Interactivate, Inc larry@interactivate.com http://www.interactivate.com --------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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