Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 17:58:43 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: current@freebsd.org, jhs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which tools can back up inodes with 32bit minor numbers ? Message-ID: <199607020758.RAA00249@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Which if any utils. are available for use in a script to do local backup of >directories that have 32bit minor /dev numbers ? Any ? None ? dump. cpio with non-braindamaged formats (newc, crc; perhaps a hp format). pax with non-braindamaged cpio formats. tar can only handle 18 bit device numbers. >tar: > I thought tar wouldn't cope, was suprised to see it extract OK, > tried again later, failed (what I'd initially expected), Files with a too-large device number cause an error at archive creation time for the FreeBSD version of tar, cpio and pax. Bruce
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