Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Unfortunately the rooted backups are cpio format:
> find / -depth -print0 | cpio -oBa0 -Hcrc >/dev/tape
> where they should be:
> cd / && find . -depth -print0 | cpio -oBa0 -Hcrc >/dev/tape
>
> And there's no documented way to use tar on a cpio file, although cpio
> will read many tar files. The real issue is not how to do the unpack, but
> how to NOT do the unpack at all.
Sure?
Star reads cpio files the same way as it does with tar archives.
BTW: the CPIO archive format is dead and not extensible to the future or even
the present. The archive format for today and the future is "pax" which
is a POSIX.1-2001 TAR extension.
J�rg
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