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Re: How to backup an executor partition??



>>>>> "V" == Vincent S Cojot <coyote@step.polymtl.ca> writes:


V> I'd like to ask a small question about executor under Linux: I love
V> executor and I have installed on an ext2fs partition.  However, the
V> usual backup programs one would use under Linux complain about that
V> partition (Mac programs tend to put spaces and other strange
V> characters in file names). GNU tar complains about Long links and
V> skips files and cpio simply doesn't like some file names and skips
V> some files too.

Look at the --null option to GNU tar (find has a complementary
-print0).  Basically what you want is to pass tar a list of null
terminated (not whitespace terminated) files.  That way the files can
have spaces, weird characters, etc.

--
Rob



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