Re: Backup format to ISO?

[scdbackup@gmx.net]

> The cpio tapes are rooted, so they are a double pain, they try to unpack
> in / instead of "." as they should. This requires creative use of
> chroot...

My cpio man page (GNU cpio version 2.5) says 
        --no-absolute-filenames
              In  copy-in  mode, create all files relative to the
              current directory, even if they  have  an  absolute
              file name in the archive.

My afio man page says 
       -A           Do  not  turn  absolute  paths  into relative
                    paths.  That  is  don't  remove  the  leading
                    slash.

My experiments :
  find /u/test | 
    cpio -o | \
    cpio -tv --no-absolute-filenames | \
    head -1
  find /u/test | \
    cpio -o | \
    afio -tv - | \
    head -1
reply
  u/test

While cpio without --no-absolute-filenames and afio with -A reply
  /u/test


Have a nice day :)

Thomas