Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!unixland!bill From: bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Backup while in multi-user mode Message-ID: <1991May30.002422.14775@unixland.uucp> Organization: Think_Tank BBS & Public Access Unix References: <1991May24.013214.2526@servalan.uucp> Date: Thu, 30 May 91 00:24:22 GMT In article peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > >Your CPIO might have all those flaws. Ours doesn't. Ever hear of a program >by the name of "pax"? Does pax have the problem that CPIO has, where if it encounters a file on an NFS-mounted partition, and doesn't have read permission on the file, it causes the CPIO to fail (rather than just skipping the file with maybe a warning)? I'm leery of something non-standard like PAX. What happens 5 years from now when we need to restore something from a tape created on a Sun/386i (for example) to a Sparc-L? :-) -- bill@unixland.natick.ma.us The Think_Tank BBS & Public Access Unix ...!uunet!think!unixland!bill bill@unixland ..!{uunet,bloom-beacon,esegue}!world!unixland!bill 508-655-3848 (2400) 508-651-8723 (9600-HST) 508-651-8733 (9600-PEP-V32)