Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!tellab5!chinet!les From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Backup while in multi-user mode Message-ID: <1991May26.015951.7463@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 26 May 91 01:59:51 GMT References: <1991May25.003146.13982@ingres.Ingr Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX Lines: 20 In article peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >Yes, but cpio doesn't produce a bad archive when it gets out of sync. It doesn't die if files have been deleted, but some very nasty things happen if a file is truncated between the time cpio generates its header and when it actually reads the file. I think most versions even get confused if the file grows in this interval (i.e. they put the data to EOF in the archive even if it is not consistant with the header length field.). >We're on a network that provides transparent UNIX file system semantics >on remote hosts, and another thing that puzzles us terribly is why people >put up with junk like NFS and RFS. What's wrong with RFS, other than killing all the processes that were using it when a link goes down? Les Mikesell les@chinet.chi.il.us