Hi, Christopher > It seems that an archive written in copy out mode with cpio (GNU > cpio) 2.6 is corrupt, The command used was simply: > > $ find . -depth -print | cpio -ov >backup.cpio > [...] > home/sharedsys/newfiles/test.ps > home/sharedsys/newfiles > home/sharedsys > home/ > 824190054 blocks
Did cpio -t (on the same machine) show the contents of this archive without errors? > ...just as suggested by O'Reilly: > > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/11/FreeBSD_Basics.html > > When restoring in copy out mode with the identical cpio(1) binary > as used for the backup: That is to say, you were using another cpio binary for restoring, right? If so, what version of cpio was it? Regards, Sergey _______________________________________________ Bug-cpio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cpio
