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From: chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: tar problems with SCO
Keywords: sco tar large directories
Message-ID: <24AA2BBC.695@ateng.com>
Date: 29 Jun 89 14:01:31 GMT
References: <249@mgse.UUCP>
Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
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According to marks@mgse.UUCP (Mark Seiffert):
>[...] some of my spool/news directories became quite large. [...]
>tar will start backing up the large directory repeatedly.

This is an >old< tar bug.

Try using a different backup program.  I use afio, a PD implementation of
the "cpio -c" format.  It has several advantages over tar:

	It makes more efficient use of media.
	It can read while writing (fork/write/read/wait).
	You can specify the files to be backed up however you like,
	    since the filenames come from standard input.
	    A reasonable "everything" is "find . -depth -print".

>Joke of the month:
>Instant Mainframe. Just Add SCO. (SCO advertisement)

Ever tried to use a mainframe?  They have bugs too.
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