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id m0uLOdv-0007sva; Mon, 20 May 96 00:40 MDT Sender: owner-executor Received: by ftp.ardi.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0uLOPP-0007t2C; Mon, 20 May 96 00:25 MDT Received: from raven.ots.utexas.edu (osiris@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by raven.ots.utexas.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA01207; Mon, 20 May 1996 01:25:24 -0500 Message-id: <199605200625.BAA01207@raven.ots.utexas.edu> Subject: Re: How to backup an executor partition?? Cc: executor@ardi.com In-reply-to: Your message of "19 May 1996 16:18:53 GMT." To: coyote@step.polymtl.ca From: Rob Browning <osiris@cs.utexas.edu> Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 01:25:24 -0500 Sender: owner-executor@ardi.com Precedence: bulk >>>>> "V" == Vincent S Cojot <coyote@step.polymtl.ca> writes: V> I'd like to ask a small question about executor under Linux: I love V> executor and I have installed on an ext2fs partition. However, the V> usual backup programs one would use under Linux complain about that V> partition (Mac programs tend to put spaces and other strange V> characters in file names). GNU tar complains about Long links and V> skips files and cpio simply doesn't like some file names and skips V> some files too. Look at the --null option to GNU tar (find has a complementary -print0). Basically what you want is to pass tar a list of null terminated (not whitespace terminated) files. That way the files can have spaces, weird characters, etc. -- Rob