Re: a question on pipes and growisofs

[Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)]

scdbackup@gmx.net wrote:

>
>   star -c -acl -link-dirs level=0 . | gzip | growisofs ...

For backups, I recommend to use star's "dump" format (created if you 
add -dump to the command line).

It allows to archive any file type (e.g. also sockets) and it adds
more informations about the backup.

Jörg

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