Re: cpio causes shoe-shinning on my tape drive

On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Andrew Dixon wrote: > #find /home -xdev |cpio --create >/dev/nst0 > > the tape spins and then stops and rewinds and then spins and stops > etc... > > Any ideas how to make this work nicer? Try find ./home -xdev -depth | cpio -o -C 1024k -H crc -F /dev/nst0 -o for

Re: cpio causes shoe-shinning on my tape drive

hi ya andrew tape devices are slow... stick the "buffer" program in between so that the tape will always have data ready to write find ... | buffer | cpio ... - that usually made my tapes whine constantaly w/o interruptions c ya alvin On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Andrew Dixon wrote: > Hi Al

cpio causes shoe-shinning on my tape drive

Hi All, I'm trying to switch to cpio to make backups of my system but I'm getting really bad results. When I create a tar archive: #tar -cv --file /dev/nst0 /home the tape starts spinning and everything chugs along just fine. On the other hand, when I try to make a cpio archive