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- From: sens@FASECON.ECON.NYU.EDU (Sunando Sen)
- Subject: Re: compression programs
- Message-ID: <sens.28.726911471@FASECON.ECON.NYU.EDU>
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- Organization: New York University
- References: <1993Jan11.063052.11030@sol.UVic.CA>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 07:51:11 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan11.063052.11030@sol.UVic.CA>
- pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
-
- >Also, a while back someone posted a shell script that drove
- >cpio to do multivolume backups, with compression (it was
- >a long time ago). Does anyone have such a beast?
-
- Do you have something in mind like the following:
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- Create archive --> find / -depth -print | cpio -o -O /dev/fd1
- Extract archive --> cpio -i -I /dev/fd1
- List archive --> cpio -it -I /dev/fd1
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- Or something more complicated?
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- Regards,
-
- Sunando Sen
- sens@fasecon.econ.nyu.edu
-