cpio Out of phase -- get help
Todd Booth
todd at janus.UUCP
Sat Nov 11 01:57:03 AEST 1989
In article <6393 at turnkey.gryphon.COM>, jackv at turnkey.gryphon.COM (Jack F. Vogel) writes:
> I would recommend anyone
> running 1.1 not use cpio to backup your local filesystem, it will create
> an archive without errors but will bomb trying to restore it.
And I would recommend not using cpio to xfer files from a remote Unix
system TO AIX since I to have received the out-of-phase error transfering
from a SYS V based system to AIX. Therefore between our two suggestions
don't use cpio. My solution was to use tar.
--todd booth
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