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- Path: sparky!uunet!spillman!tye
- From: tye@spillman.uucp (E. Tye McQueen)
- Subject: Verbose option for "restore -T -f-"?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.003311.16587@spillman.uucp>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 00:33:11 GMT
- Organization: Spillman Data Systems
- Lines: 43
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- So how do you get "restore -T" to list more than just file names?
- I would like to know *at least* file sizes. I've tried
-
- rcmd node cat /dev/rst0 | restore -T -v -f-
-
- just because tar and cpio both overload the "v" option to indicate
- "long format" listing when doing tables of contents. But "-v"
- seems to have no effect when combined with "-T". I couldn't find
- anything in "man restore" (though IBM's formatting of man pages
- doesn't make it easy to find things) and I don't wish to endure the
- hours of torture trying to coax any info out of "info" (because I
- doubt what I'm looking for is there anyway).
-
- At one point it looked like IBM's "backup" was really just a front-
- end for "cpio" and "dump" that preceeded the archive with a header
- saying who made this backup when, using what method, etc. But,
- although there is something that looks very much like a cpio header
- about 160 bytes into the tape, it is neither a "cpio -o" nor "cpio
- -oc" header for an RS/6000. The "-oc" header starts "070707" and
- there is a "\00\07\00\07\00\07" (three nulls with three "bell"s)
- on the tape: close but no cigar.
-
- I was hoping I could skip the "backup" header and use cpio directly
- to get "cpio -itv" to do what I want. It would be even nicer if
- there was a way to restore the files to a machine other than an
- RS/6000 (where I have more disk space).
-
- I don't have the free disk space on the RS/6000 to restore the whole
- tape just to figure out which files I do have space for.
-
- My questions has now become more a matter of curiosity because I
- will probably end up having the client make another tape and make
- sure he uses cpio to write it this time.
-
- I haven't noticed this discussed before so please accept my apology
- if it has been a recent topic of conversation. I do mostly only
- browse subject lines due to the volume in this newsgroup.
-
- Thanks,
- tye@spillman.com Tye McQueen, E.
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