Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 09:28:03 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: Which tools can back up inodes with 32bit minor numbers ? Message-ID: <199607020728.JAA11042@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199607011604.SAA13056@vector.jhs.no_domain> from "Julian H. Stacey" at "Jul 1, 96 06:04:19 pm"
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As Julian H. Stacey wrote: > 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: > doesnt accept a directory specifier of /dev (I dont want whole FS archived) But dump of course _does_ the right thing in backing them up. (You will get /dev into a separate file system anytime soon. But i doubt you will have any need to include it into a backup then. :-) > tar: broken > cpio: also could not archive large minors, cpio works, with the ``newer'' formats (-H crc, -H newc) You forgot: pax: Dunno, i think it inherits the restrictions depending on the archive format used. Thus, it should work with the same cpio formats as cpio does. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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