[Mailman-Users] the best way to...

[Jon Carnes]

I still use tar.  I had some problems with it 4 years ago, but it was easily
fixable, and the next release corrected the problems.
The main mis-belief about tar is that if one part goes bad (or is bad during
the creation) then you can't get to the rest of the data.  I'm sure this was
true at one time, but not any more.

Just my 2¢
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Sherohman" <esper at sherohman.org>
To: <Mailman-Users at python.org>
Cc: "Paul Tomblin" <ptomblin at xcski.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 12:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] the best way to...


> On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 12:06:06PM -0500, Paul Tomblin wrote:
> > Quoting Dave Sherohman (esper at sherohman.org):
> > > find . -xdev -print0 | cpio -pvdm0 /export/home2
> >
> > Or my personal favourite
> >
> > tar cvfB - . | (cd /export/home2; tar xvBPf -)
>
> I've always stuck with cpio because I've heard that tar has problems
> dealing with links and other special files.  Is that a thing of the
> past?
>
> --
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> have already won. - reverius
>
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