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From: bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Backup while in multi-user mode
Message-ID: <1991May30.002422.14775@unixland.uucp>
Organization: Think_Tank BBS & Public Access Unix
References: <KJIBZ8B@xds13.ferranti.com> <1991May24.013214.2526@servalan.uucp> <EDJB+TC@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: Thu, 30 May 91 00:24:22 GMT

In article <EDJB+TC@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>
>Your CPIO might have all those flaws. Ours doesn't. Ever hear of a program
>by the name of "pax"?

Does pax have the problem that CPIO has, where if it encounters a file
on an NFS-mounted partition, and doesn't have read permission on the file,
it causes the CPIO to fail (rather than just skipping the file with
maybe a warning)?

I'm leery of something non-standard like PAX.  What happens 5 years from
now when we need to restore something from a tape created on a Sun/386i
(for example) to a Sparc-L? :-)




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