Re: tar, but not gnu tar

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Title: RE: tar, but not gnu tar

Thanks, Ken.

I just glanced at man page for star.  It looks promising
and I will experiment with it.  This may be the ticket.

Regards,

Tena
tsakai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Marshall [mailto:ktm@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wed 8/22/2007 5:30 AM
To: Tena Sakai
Cc: Kevin Grittner; pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: tar, but not gnu tar

Tena,

We have been very happy with star. It is a very nice pax,
cpio, gnutar,... replacement. You may want to give it a try.

Ken

On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 06:53:53PM -0700, Tena Sakai wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> Yes, I have, but I am much more familiar with tar.
> I think I will go with the latest gnu tar (v 1.18)
> which is suggested by Bruce.  I will play with it
> tomorrow and see how it goes.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Tena
>
> tsakai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Grittner [mailto:Kevin.Grittner@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tue 8/21/2007 6:02 PM
> To: Tena Sakai; pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: tar, but not gnu tar

> >>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at  7:28 PM, in message
> <FE44E0D7EAD2ED4BB2165071DB8E328C03062B59@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Tena Sakai"
> <tsakai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On my linux machine, gnu tar is the tar.  Does
> > anybody have a suggestion as to where I can go
> > to get a tar that is not gnu?

> Have you considered using cpio instead?

> http://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/

> -Kevin

>
>
>


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