From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 26 10:43: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.interactivate.com (mail.interactivate.com [63.141.73.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B34D37B405 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:43:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from larry@interactivate.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by mail.interactivate.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f6QHiw951648; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:44:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from larry@interactivate.com) Received: from feh (bofh [63.141.73.10]) by mail.interactivate.com (8.11.1/8.11.1av) with ESMTP id f6QHiQe51631; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:44:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from larry@interactivate.com) Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:40:19 -0700 From: Lawrence Sica To: James Howard , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup file formats: tar, cpio, pax, yadda, yadda, yadda Message-ID: <0.996169219@feh> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.0b1 (SunOS/SPARC Demo) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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