I will give it a shot. Thank you very much for the help. I will report
back how it works.
sean
Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
Sean Fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We also had an issue with tar/find combination as follows:
the index list is:
/directory
/directory/file1
/directory/file2
Cpio just backs up the directory, tar would back up the contents of the
directory (/directory/file1, /directory/file2), then the files,
Oh, yes, I've forgotten to mention this. By default, if tar encounters a
directory in the file list, it will recursively descend to this
directory and back up its contents. So, if you simply pipe the find
output to tar, you'll get each file added twice. To avoid this, use
--no-recursion option to tar. So, the corrected invocation from my
previous post will be:
find $filesys -mount $SKIPSTRING -print |
tee $LISTFILE |
tar --rsh-command=/usr/bin/ssh \
--one-file-system \
-c -z -f $BU_HOST:/backups/$MYHOST/$DAY/$c_filesys.cpio.gz \
-P -T - \
--no-recursion \
$filesys
Also, as I mentioned previously, if /directory had no contents, tar
would skip it, which caused a lot of problems on restore because upload
and temp directories weren't on the archive. Does it currently address that?
Tar archives every file or directory name it is given, no matter what its
contents is.
Regards,
Sergey
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