From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 2 09:58:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA22275 for current-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 09:58:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA22261 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 09:58:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id SAA02798 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 18:58:42 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id SAA02196 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 18:58:42 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id JAA11042 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 09:28:04 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607020728.JAA11042@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Which tools can back up inodes with 32bit minor numbers ? To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 09:28:03 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199607011604.SAA13056@vector.jhs.no_domain> from "Julian H. Stacey" at "Jul 1, 96 06:04:19 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)