RE: OT : compress & write to tape - how to ?
- From: Stephen.Lee@xxxxxxxx
- To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 08:51:25 -0500
For what it's worth, I like cpio. I don't know about now, but tar used to
have some limitations that make it unsuitable. For example, it used to
(don't know about now) have a limit on the number of characters (limit was
80) allowed in a file name that was less that what the OS allowed. I ran
into this when tar-ing directories that contained object files generated by
the old Rogue Wave C++ stuff.
Back in my sys admin days, I found cpio completely reliable for backing up
(and restoring!!) entire systems. It reliably backed up and restore ALL
file types (pipes, soft links, devices, etc.).
>-----Original Message-----
>i see various combinations of tar, gzip , dd ...
>on the net to do this task.
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