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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: backup with compressed cpio files ?
Message-ID: <9667@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 19 Feb 89 01:41:08 GMT
References: <9100001@netmuc> <872@deimos.cis.ksu.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <872@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> tar@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey) writes:
>In article <9100001@netmuc> bothe@netmuc.UUCP writes:
>>what i suggest is to save my files with:
>1) You can't compress the output from find and pipe that into cpio.  Try:
>      find . -print | compress | cpio -oac > /dev/rmt0
>   Note that since cpio isn't writing directly to the tape device, the
>   "-B" option doesn't do anything.

What the hell are you guys talking about??
The output from "find" is a list of pathnames,
which must remain readable as "cpio" receives them
If you direct "cpio -o"'s output at a magtape,
it certainly WILL write directly to it.

	find . -depth -print | cpio -oc | compress | dd bs=5k > /dev/rmt0