Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 08:51:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Francisco Reyes <freyes@inch.com> Cc: "stellayu@ca.inter.net" <stellayu@ca.inter.net>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: simple back up method Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10105170850230.29692-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <200105162240.SAA60457@sanson.reyes.somos.net>
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yeah but this weird thing happened on a restore with cpio - its like a file pointer/counter was off or something, and the last few bytes or sometimes lines of the end of one file would be missing, and would be stuck to the beginning of another file.. it chewed alot of binaries to shreds that way. On Wed, 16 May 2001, Francisco Reyes wrote: > 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
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