SUMMARY: Backup while in multi-user mode

[Bill Heiser]

In article <EDJB+TC at xds13.ferranti.com> peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>
>Your CPIO might have all those flaws. Ours doesn't. Ever hear of a program
>by the name of "pax"?

Does pax have the problem that CPIO has, where if it encounters a file
on an NFS-mounted partition, and doesn't have read permission on the file,
it causes the CPIO to fail (rather than just skipping the file with
maybe a warning)?

I'm leery of something non-standard like PAX.  What happens 5 years from
now when we need to restore something from a tape created on a Sun/386i
(for example) to a Sparc-L? :-)




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