hi ya andrew
tape devices are slow...
stick the "buffer" program in between so that the tape will always
have data ready to write
find ... | buffer | cpio ...
- that usually made my tapes whine constantaly w/o interruptions
c ya
alvin
On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Andrew Dixon wrote:
> Hi All,
> I'm trying to switch to cpio to make backups of my system but I'm
> getting really bad results. When I create a tar archive:
>
> #tar -cv --file /dev/nst0 /home
>
> the tape starts spinning and everything chugs along just fine. On the
> other hand, when I try to make a cpio archive of the same filesystem:
>
> #find /home -xdev |cpio --create >/dev/nst0
>
> the tape spins and then stops and rewinds and then spins and stops
> etc...
>
> Any ideas how to make this work nicer?
>
> Thanks,
> Andy
>
> P.S. please cc me on any replies.
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