TAR and CPIO (Was:Re: SCSI tape drive)

[Alexis Rosen]

coolidge at cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>jim at jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) writes:
>>I've heard a number of times that tar and cpio "fail" with large jobs... what
>>is meant by "fail"? During the backup? During the restore? Too many files?
>>Files too big? Too many links (symbolic or otherwise)?
>
>I just (two days ago) had tar fail on me when getting the release of
>g++ out the door. For some reason, it was not at all happy with the [...]

Welcome to the club.

>>Anyone know if any of the 3rd party tar/cpio replacements ("CTar", "LoneTar"(?)
>>) have been ported to A/UX?
>
>Gnu tar-1.09 has been ported. It went very easily and I've been using
>it as my primary tar for the past 2 days :-). Gnu cpio also ports
>pretty easily.

Have you tested this with tapes of any sort? Multiple tapes of any sort?
If not, I'd love to try it out... (That's the restrained version of "GIMME!".)

Thanks,
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Alexis Rosen
Owner/Sysadmin, PANIX Public Access Unix, NY
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