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Re: AW: Backup format to ISO?



davidsen@tmr.com (2004-11-16 at 1245.39 -0500):
> > You could use GNU tar to unpack the archives, as gtar replaces / with ./ by
> > default,
> > taking away the double pain (at the cost of additional pain for using gtar
> > :)
> Unfortunately the rooted backups are cpio format:
[...]
> And there's no documented way to use tar on a cpio file, although cpio

The man page I have talks about --no-absolute-filenames, no chroot
tricks needed.

> will read many tar files. The real issue is not how to do the unpack, but
> how to NOT do the unpack at all.

That would save time, but no idea about how to do with mkisofs.

GSR
 



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