I've heard people before say to use tar for backups. My problem with tar
is that it did not (at least in my tests several years ago) backup empty
directories. We use cpio for system backups, and what makes it great is
that it will record *everything*. Tar would typically skip things like
empty directories, creating quite a problem if you try to restore an OS
or web file tree.
Has this changed? I've doing backups with cpio for 15 years, so it's
likely my tar info is out of date.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
sean
Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
Sean Fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I will try. But 8 G still seems kind of small. Are there plans to change
this?
This does not depend entirely on me. Cpio header layouts are standard
and changing them will mean breaking bbothb ackwar and inter-version
compatibility, which I'd like to avoid. If you plan to store bigger
files, I'd suggest you to use GNU tar. Its recent version (1.15.1)
supports POSIX.1-2001 archive format, which allows for non-limited file
sizes.
Regards,
Sergey
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