From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 26 10:44:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from etrn.xmission.com (etrn.xmission.com [198.60.22.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BBC137B405 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:44:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@misty.eyesbeyond.com) Received: from [198.60.22.22] (helo=mail.xmission.com) by etrn.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 15PpBK-0003Ik-00; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:44:18 -0600 Received: from [166.70.9.204] (helo=misty.eyesbeyond.com) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15PpBJ-0005Ir-00; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:44:17 -0600 Received: (from glewis@localhost) by misty.eyesbeyond.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f6QHiBh61374; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 03:14:11 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from glewis) Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 03:14:11 +0930 From: Greg Lewis To: James Howard Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backup file formats: tar, cpio, pax, yadda, yadda, yadda Message-ID: <20010727031410.A61312@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from howardjp@Glue.umd.edu on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:26:28PM -0400 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 On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:26:28PM -0400, James Howard wrote: > Both tar and cpio seem to have problems doing backups on my > server. Looking at the pax manpage, we see this: > [snipped] > > 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? dump(8) -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Mobile: 0419 868 494 Information Technology Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message