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- From: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I)
- Subject: Re: Problems w/ multi-volume tar backup
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.105005.849@acme.gen.nz>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 10:50:05 GMT
- Organization: ACME BBS - Public Access Usenet, Palmerston North, New Zealand
- References: <1992Aug18.001947.1261@acme.gen.nz> <1992Aug18.151053.10433@rosevax.rosemount.com>
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- grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards) writes:
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- > kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I) writes:
- >
- > : grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards) writes:
- > :
- > : > [...problems with ustar and GNU tar...]
- > :
- > : works okay although it doesn't restore links properly. However, ustar is
- > : just cpio with a different UI so if you're having problems with one it's
- > : likely you'll have problems with the other.
- >
- > Last time I checked, cpio and ustar were completely different. You
- > might be thinking of pax, which handles either cpio or tar style
- > archives. I use cpio under DOS quite a bit, so maybe I'll switch to
- > cpio under Coherent.
-
- Erm, what I mean is that ustar and cpio and pax are all the same executable.
-
- $ cd /usr/bin
- $ ls -li pax cpio ustar
- 1103 -r-x--x--x 3 bin bin 43924 Wed Aug 5 20:47 cpio
- 1103 -r-x--x--x 3 bin bin 43924 Wed Aug 5 20:47 pax
- 1103 -r-x--x--x 3 bin bin 43924 Wed Aug 5 20:47 ustar
-
- They just operate differently depending on their name at invocation. So while
- some parts must be different for the different UI and data formats, some parts
- must be the same.
-
- - k
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