[olug]Backup Solutions

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> Do you use a modified tar?

Nope.

> Straight tar unlike cpio does not backup the system file properly or
> has that changed recently? Tar is not as consitent as cpio when trying
> to do backups from my 12+ years of experience in using both on an as
> needed basis.

How so?  File permissions?  I've not had any trouble with it, even when I
had to do an emergency dump of data for our file server.  I'm using GNU
tar, btw.

My biggest problem with cpio is that it's *really* noisy and doesn't know
how to shut up short of hacking the source.

It would be great of you could point out how to get rid of those

cpio: <filename> truncating inode number

messages.  Sure, using a different cpio format would get rid of them, but
how is it different from tar once it's using the tar file format?

-- 

Phil


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