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From: m5@lynx.uucp (Mike McNally)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: GNU-tar vs dump(1)
Message-ID: <5176@lynx.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 89 17:37:26 GMT
References: <18008@adm.BRL.MIL> <4601@xenna.Encore.COM>
Reply-To: m5@lynx.UUCP (Mike McNally)
Organization: Lynx Real-Time Systems Inc, Campbell CA
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In article <4601@xenna.Encore.COM> bzs@Encore.COM (Barry Shein) writes:
>
>Another limitation of using tar (which, again, I don't know if gnutar
>attacked) is restoring device entries. 

POSIX tar format has provisions for this.  It also has provisions for longer
file names (not MAXPATHLEN, but longer than 100 bytes).

Does GNU tar have a mechanism for creating an artificial hierarchy on the
tape?  In our tar, we added a switch like -C that specifies a prefix for
each following file name.  This is very convenient (not for backup; for
file transfer).

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Mike McNally                                    Lynx Real-Time Systems
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