a new (?) twist on filesystem backups

[wbp at cuuxb.UUCP]

In article <269 at ima.UUCP> trb at ima.UUCP (Andrew Tannenbaum) writes:
>
>	<backup via find piped to cpio>
>
>As we know, cpio likes a list of files on standard input.  Problem is,
>people normally use find to generate that list, but it happily crosses
>filesystem boundaries.  How to generate a list of files on a filesystem
>for cpio?  find | grep -v?  No, ncheck!

In System V Release 3.0 and onwards, the option "-mount" has been
added pretty much for this reason.  (More specifically for little
machines such as a 3b2 for backing up to cartridge tape, which uses a
modified version of cpio that knows how to stream the tape.)  When the
"-mount" option is specified find will not cross over mount points.


   Walt Pesch
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