I have successfully used flexbackup (freshmeat has it). This provides a
friendlier command line front end to afio, cpio, tar, etc.. From what I could
glean afio is a much more robust (i.e. fault tolerant) and high performance
alternative to cpio.
Hope that helps.
Steve
Mark Weaver wrote:
> yes! as a matter of fact this information is very helpful. Thank you
> very much. This is the most information I've seen yet on this subject
> all in one place.
>
> Where does one look for the syntax similar to what you're using to talk
> to the operating system like this? The way a GUI would.
>
> Christopher Cox wrote:
> >
> > Well man dump yielded no results here. I use either tar or cpio.
> >
> > A standard way that Unix backs things up is with cpio.
> > If Mandrake would fix their version, backup would be:
> >
> > find / -print | cpio -ocv >/dev/WHATEVERDEV 2>/tmp/BACKUP.LOG
> >
> > Where WHATEVERDEV could be a tape device, CDR, CDRW.... even a filename.
> >
> > Restoring would be:
> >
> > cpio -icduvm </dev/WHATEVERDEV
> >
> > Restoring a particular file:
> >
> > cpio -icduvm PARTICULARFILE </dev/WHATEVERDEV
> >
> > If you want to restore a subdirectories worth, be sure to enclose any
> > expandable characters (*?[]$) in single quotes
> >
> > cpio -icduvm '/PARTICULAR/SUBDIRECTORY/*' </dev/WHATEVERDEV
> >
> > I hope this helps Mark.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Christopher Cox
> >
> > ----------
> > > From: Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: [expert] Backup and restore systems
> > > Date: Monday, July 24, 2000 3:28 PM
> > >
> > > What I wouldn't mind knowing is, is there a list of commands that one
> > > would use to utilize dump? From reading the man files for this utility
> > > I've been able to create some backup files, but have no idea of how to
> > > restore the bcked up files to their original place.
> > >
> > > Christopher Cox wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Just do not use cpio with versions greater than or equal to 7.
> > > >
> > > > It would appear Mandrake broke it. I have yet for anyone to respond as
> > to
> > > > why.
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > > >
> > > > Christopher Cox
> > >
> > > --
> > > Mark
> > >
> > > I love my Linux box...
> > > REASON #1 -- ...it isn't Windows!
> > > Registered Linux user #1299563
> > >
>
> --
> Mark
>
> I love my Linux box...
> REASON #1 -- ...it isn't Windows!
> Registered Linux user #1299563
