CPIO Incremental Dumps

COTTRELL, JAMES cottrell at NBS-VMS.ARPA
Thu Feb 20 07:45:58 AEST 1986


/*
> >From: weber at nadc.ARPA
> >We recently installed Sys-V, release 2 and would like to use the cpio
> >command to do daily incremental dumps.  AT&T has hinted that cpio
> >should be used but doesn't want to give out any more info without a
> >service contract in place.

Boy are you cynical! Or, boy am I naive.
 
> Sure, we do that as a regular shell procedure on our 3B5, although
> the shell script is a little peculiar to our installation, here's
> the gist of it:
> 
> 	for j in 5 6 7 8	# whatever, for /usr5, /usr6...
> 	do
> 		/bin/find /usr$j -type f $duration -print >> $logfile
> 		/bin/cpio -oB < $logfile > /dev/rmt/0m
> 	done

There is also a `-cpio <device>' option to TPC's find command. And a 
`-newer <file>' command as well.
 
> 	-Barry Shein, Boston University

	jim		cottrell at nbs
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