On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 10:32:19PM +0200, Stefan 'Kaishakunin' Schumacher wrote:
> Also sprach khym@azeotrope.org (khym@azeotrope.org)
> > On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 11:59:36AM -0700, Ben Collver wrote:
> > > I don't need to stick with the cpio format.  I'd like to understand what
> > > is going wrong.  If a field is busting an 18bit limit, I wonder which
> > > one?  Of the archiver programs and formats in the NetBSD base system,
> > > which would you recommend?
> 
> dump and restore. Both are *very* reliable, dump was the undisputed winner 
> of a backup program reliability benchmark I performed[1]. The biggest losers
> are tar, cpio and pax. Which is not surprising, if one keeps in mind
> how the work.

I don't think dump counts as an archiver.  It only works with ffs/lfs,
and the manual states that it only works reliably on an unmounted
filesystem.

Cheers,

Ben