backup

[Rick Stevens]

roland brouwers wrote:
> I took a backup on the scsi device /dev/rct0 instead of /dev/st0 (i was 
> used to write rct0 with SCO unix)
> So he took a backup in de file /dev/rct0 with the instruction
> find . -print|cpio -ovBc >/dev/rct0
> I thought getting the backuped files from this file with
> cpio -ivBc </dev/rct0
> but this gives the error
> value too large for the defined data type
>  
> Could someone help me, otherwise I will be in a deep sh..

Try

	cat /dev/rct0 | cpio -ivBc

or

	cpio -ivBc -I /dev/rct0

instead.
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