On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Joerg Schilling wrote:

> Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Unfortunately the rooted backups are cpio format:
> >   find / -depth -print0 | cpio -oBa0 -Hcrc >/dev/tape
> 
> Did you have success when using star to unpack the CPIO archive?

Yes, thank you. But only in terms of not having to chroot to unpack, there
seems to easy way to go from cpio or tar format to ISO without unpacking
everything and repacking.

It is only the size of the problem, hundreds of tapes, which justifies
looking for a better way.


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bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.


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