cpio
Bob Daniel
rad at genco.bungi.com
Thu Nov 29 06:55:02 AEST 1990
In article <Nov.27.21.57.00.1990.19848 at remus.rutgers.edu> mef at remus.rutgers.edu (Marc E. Fiuczynski) writes:
>A while ago I cpio'd some stuff to multiple diskettes.
>It is possible to cpio large files or a collection of
>files out to multiple diskettes. Unfortunately, I forgot
>how to cpio them all back from the disks to the hard disk.
>Cann anyone tell me what the args are for cpio to read in files
>from multiple disks!!!
You need to cpio to the raw device when going over multiple volumes.
For SysV/386, use:
cpio -ocvmB >/dev/rdsk/f0
^ raw disk device
^floppy 0
Reading back:
cpio -icvdmB </dev/rdsk/f0
If you want to start on a disk that is NOT the first one, use the 'k' option.
cpio -icvdmBk </dev/rdsk/f0
The 'k' option will ignore the header info.
Use the 'u' option if you want to overwrite files with the same name.
For 3B2, the raw floppy device is '/dev/rdiskette'
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