cottrell@NBS-VMS.ARPA (COTTRELL, JAMES) (02/20/86)
/* > >From: weber@nadc.ARPA > >We recently installed Sys-V, release 2 and would like to use the cpio > >command to do daily incremental dumps. AT&T has hinted that cpio > >should be used but doesn't want to give out any more info without a > >service contract in place. Boy are you cynical! Or, boy am I naive. > Sure, we do that as a regular shell procedure on our 3B5, although > the shell script is a little peculiar to our installation, here's > the gist of it: > > for j in 5 6 7 8 # whatever, for /usr5, /usr6... > do > /bin/find /usr$j -type f $duration -print >> $logfile > /bin/cpio -oB < $logfile > /dev/rmt/0m > done There is also a `-cpio <device>' option to TPC's find command. And a `-newer <file>' command as well. > -Barry Shein, Boston University jim cottrell@nbs */ ------