Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Apples and oranges. Tar and rpm are not directly comparable.
true. i was thinking zip. my fingers and eyes were not listening.
> I've never liked cpio (you use what you know) but that's a matter of
> personal preference.
if you did any backing up with tape, you wou
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 15:42 +, g wrote:
> > I meant "people mostly use tar and cpio for tasks other than backing
> up to
> > tape". This is self-evident given the huge number of tarballs (and
> some
> > cpio sets) available for download, which have nothing to do with
> tape
> > backup.
>
> i b
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> You may have misunderstood what I meant. I didn't mean "people don't use
> tar or cpio when backing up to tape".
ok.
> I meant "people mostly use tar and cpio for tasks other than backing up to
> tape". This is self-evident given the huge number of tarballs (and so
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 07:09 +, g wrote:
> > In fact they are usually not used with tape at all
>
> not true. could be things are run a little different on this side of
> pond.
>
> 'find | cpio' was used by 5 admin's on mainframe systems that i did
> equipment support on. numerous other admin'
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Neither tar nor cpio force you to use tape.
true. but they are easier to use than a lot of tape backup progs.
i never learned to use tar, as i was taught using 'find | cpio'.
> In fact they are usually not used with tape at all
not true. could be things are run a
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 00:19 +, g wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
>
> > What about the people who want to store on tapes (they exist!). Should we
> > change the tape archiving software as well?
>
> tape archiving, ie, cpio and tar, as well as any good tape program, already
> have abilit
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> What about the people who want to store on tapes (they exist!). Should we
> change the tape archiving software as well?
tape archiving, ie, cpio and tar, as well as any good tape program, already
have ability to store to more than one tape.
it is primarily cd/dvd pr
