RE: CVS Repository On-Line Backup Capability i.e. Hot Backup

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Monday, February 16, 2004 at 09:45:31 (-0500), Schrum, Allan (Allan) 
wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: CVS Repository On-Line Backup Capability i.e. Hot Backup
>
> Also, have you thought about using CPIO which takes in filenames
> and does not recurse?
> 
> Tar has a limit on the max length of the filenames it will archive. Cpio
> does not seem to have that limit.

It depends on the implementation.

FYI the POSIX standard file archiving tool is Pax and it's available on
most systems today.  Pax can also create an archive from a list of files
without first traversing the directory structure itself.

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