SUMMARY: Backup while in multi-user mode
dan at gacvx2.gac.edu
dan at gacvx2.gac.edu
Mon May 27 05:42:04 AEST 1991
In article <1991May26.180717.22463 at menudo.uh.edu>, acsiv at menudo.uh.edu (Duck @ U of Houston) writes:
> In article <W3KBZID at xds13.ferranti.com> peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>>
>>That's why we use pax.
>
> I'll bite...what's pax?
archie> whatis pax
pax Reads and writes tar(1) and "cpio" formats, both
traditional and IEEE 1003.1 (POSIX) extended. Handles
multi-volume archives and automatically determines
format while reading. Has tar(1), "cpio", and "pax"
interfaces. "pax" interface is based on IEEE 1003.2
Draft 7
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