From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 26 11: 3:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from moutvdom01.kundenserver.de (moutvdom01.kundenserver.de [195.20.224.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A6FE37B403 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:03:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kuehl@lgk.de) Received: from [195.20.224.209] (helo=mrvdom02.schlund.de) by moutvdom01.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 15PpTv-0005pc-00; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 20:03:31 +0200 Received: from [212.1.35.3] (helo=wklk) by mrvdom02.schlund.de with smtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 15PpTv-0001FA-00; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 20:03:31 +0200 Message-ID: <000901c115fc$fecc0550$162301d4@wklk> From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lars_K=FChl?= To: "James Howard" , References: Subject: Re: Backup file formats: tar, cpio, pax, yadda, yadda, yadda Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 20:01:29 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 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? Neither tar nor cpio is suitable for backup purposes. Use dump instead. BTW this is a subject for -questions rather than -hackers. Lars To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message