Re: tar, but not gnu tar

Hi Kevin,

Yes, I have, but I am much more familiar with tar.
I think I will go with the latest gnu tar (v 1.18)
which is suggested by Bruce. I will play with it
tomorrow and see how it goes.

Thanks.

Tena

tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Grittner [mailto:Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov]
Sent: Tue 8/21/2007 6:02 PM
To: Tena Sakai; pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] tar, but not gnu tar

>>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 7:28 PM, in message
<FE44E0D7EAD2ED4BB2165071DB8E328C03062B59(at)egcrc-ex01(dot)egcrc(dot)org>, "Tena Sakai"
<tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu> wrote:
>
> On my linux machine, gnu tar is the tar. Does
> anybody have a suggestion as to where I can go
> to get a tar that is not gnu?

Have you considered using cpio instead?

http://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/

-Kevin