Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 18:04:19 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@freebsd.org> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Which tools can back up inodes with 32bit minor numbers ? Message-ID: <199607011604.SAA13056@vector.jhs.no_domain>
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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 ? We've had 32 bit minors around for a long time, & there's a release coming up, so it'd be nice if we could handle them easily. dump: doesnt accept a directory specifier of /dev (I dont want whole FS archived) tar: I thought tar wouldn't cope, was suprised to see it extract OK, tried again later, failed (what I'd initially expected), I'm confused by that (I'm the only root, & I can't spot a path change). Maybe I used subtly different tar invocation so that first tar did some kind of 2nd pass (like gtar does on > 128 chars/pathname, to extend beyond POSIX tar definition). cpio: also could not archive large minors, mtree: just creates dirs. dev/MAKEDEV: inappropriate for this as I just want a little script that'll make a freeze copy of what's in /dev, (including all local adjustments automatically done by such as ports mgetty install etc), not a formalised copy of what should be there. Julian -- Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/
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