Example—Copying All Files in a Directory to a Tape (cpio) (System Administration Guide: Basic Administration)

System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

Example—Copying All Files in a Directory to a Tape (`cpio`)

The following example shows how to copy all of the files in the /export/home/kryten directory to the tape in tape drive 0.

$ cd /export/home/kryten
$ ls | cpio -oc > /dev/rmt/0
92 blocks
$ cpio -civt < /dev/rmt/0
-rw------t    1 kryten     users        400 Jul 14 09:28 2001, b
drwx--x--x    2 kryten     users          0 Jul 14 09:26 2001, letters
-rw------t    1 kryten     users      10000 Jul 14 09:26 2001, letter1
-rw------t    1 kryten     users      10100 Jul 14 09:26 2001, letter2
-rw------t    1 kryten     users      11100 Jul 14 09:27 2001, letter3
-rw------t    1 kryten     users      12300 Jul 14 09:27 2001, letter4
drwx--x--x    2 kryten     users          0 Jul 14 09:27 2001, memos
-rw------t    1 kryten     users        400 Jul 14 09:28 2001, memosmemoU
-rw------t    1 kryten     users        500 Jul 14 09:28 2001, memosmemoW
-rw------t    1 kryten     users        100 Jul 14 09:27 2001, memosmemoX
-rw------t    1 kryten     users        200 Jul 14 09:28 2001, memosmemoY
-rw------t    1 kryten     users        150 Jul 14 09:28 2001, memosmemoZ
drwx--x--x    2 kryten     users          0 Jul 14 09:24 2001, reports
92 blocks
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