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From: seligman@CS.Stanford.EDU (Scott Seligman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: find and cpio
Message-ID: <1990Sep15.061919.3988@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 15 Sep 90 06:19:19 GMT
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In-Reply-To: pearmana@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk's message of 11 Sep 90 14:47:23 GMT

In article <1150@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk> pearmana@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk (Andy Pearman) writes:
> 
> On HP-UX (6.21) we use  their backup script which effectively does:
> 
>   cd /
>   find . -hidden -print | cpio -ocxa | tcio ......


Could someone please explain why HP chooses to use this incantation?
It appears to make a list of all file names, and then individually
seek each and every one (!) before writing them to the backup medium.

Why not use the more direct dump(1M) and restore(1M)?


Scott Seligman

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