On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:26:28PM -0400, James Howard wrote:
> Both tar and cpio seem to have problems doing backups on my
> server.  Looking at the pax manpage, we see this:
> 
[snipped]
> 
> Let's review.  All the tar formats will truncate long filenames.  All the
> cpio formats truncate the inode number.  Is there a reasonable backup tool
> which does not do goofy things like that?

dump(8)

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