Re: [Bug-cpio] cpio can't read large files

[Sean Fulton]

I've heard people before say to use tar for backups. My problem with tar 
is that it did not (at least in my tests several years ago) backup empty 
directories. We use cpio for system backups, and what makes it great is 
that it will record *everything*.  Tar would typically skip things like 
empty directories, creating quite a problem if you try to restore an OS 
or web file tree.

Has this changed? I've doing backups with cpio for 15 years, so it's 
likely my tar info is out of date.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

sean


Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:

> Sean Fulton <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>  
>
> > I will try. But 8 G still seems kind of small. Are there plans to change 
> > this?
> >    
>
> This does not depend entirely on me. Cpio header layouts are standard
> and changing them will mean breaking bbothb ackwar and inter-version
> compatibility, which I'd like to avoid. If you plan to store bigger
> files, I'd suggest you to use GNU tar.  Its recent version (1.15.1)
> supports POSIX.1-2001 archive format, which allows for non-limited file
> sizes.
>
> Regards,
> Sergey
>
>  

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