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- From: sun030@joy.cs.uakron.edu (JAYARAM S AKULA)
- Subject: cpio options & compressed files
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.224214.26869@news.uakron.edu>
- Keywords: cpio, compressed format, 9-track tapes
- Sender: news@news.uakron.edu
- Organization: The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:42:14 GMT
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- I was trying to restore some files 9-track tape reels.
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- I was using the command :
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- cpio -icBdmux < /dev/backup
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- this works but it does'nt retrieve some files whose ascii headers
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- got screwed up. So I used
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- cpio -icbBdmux < /dev/backup
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- this worked fine and retrieved the files I was looking for, but
- the files which were stored in compressed format got screwed up.
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- when I try to uncompress I get the error message.
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- " file is not in compressed format "
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- can anyone throw some light on this......dumb question
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- Thanks in advance.
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- Jay
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