On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Mike Tatum <[email protected]> wrote: > > cpio ... showing your age there Brian ;) >
Actually, I still use CPIO for doing one-off archives. It is more flexible than tar. The "pass" mode is unbelievably useful when moving an entire directory subtree someplace else. In fact, when I deploy a new server in a week and just attach the old storage, I will use cpio to move the entire user mount point to the new storage farm. > find -d -print -f <sourcetree> | cpio -pdumv <desttree> This is one of the most useful system administration command I have ever encountered. > I remember using cpio many, many years ago, those were the days ... tape > drives galore :) > Yeah, cpio will span output volumes but I never really used it for that ... well, once I did -- with floppies. Once. Oh, I take that back. I had a backup script I used on all our systems that ran under cron to do daily, weekly, and monthly backups to DAT. I just had to change the arguments to find to select files by modify date later than the last backup. Anyway, this is not particularly useful in windows. Hmm, isn't there a set of shell tools that run in the console window of Windows? > > I must say you think along the exact same lines I do ;) > > tar cvf - mike | compress -c > /cupboard/underthestairs.tar.Z > > ;) > Great minds do tend to think alike. ;-) -- 73 de Brian, WB6RQN/J79BPL _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using alpha and beta versions of the software.
