Re: backup question

From: Jeff Kalchik <jeff_kalchik_at_spam-me-not.mw.3com.com>
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 17:45:32 GMT
Message-ID: <37499015.12839836@news.usr.com>

On Sun, 23 May 1999 01:02:43 +0200, Joost Mulders <mail_at_j-mulders.demon.nl> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am writing a unix shellscript to do a cold backup of a midsize
>database (+/- 8G). I wanted to use cpio for archiving datafiles on a
>tape. When I do so, cpio wines that the archive is bigger as 2G and
>stops.
>
>How -in what 'format'- do you store large files on a tape ? Is my cpio
>old ?

What hardware, what OS?

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Jeff Kalchik
Views expressed are my own, not my employers. Received on Mon May 24 1999 - 12:45:32 CDT