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Add small blurb about pax(1) to the list of backup utils.

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David E. O'Brien 1997-10-03 15:46:25 +00:00
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<!-- $Id: hw.sgml,v 1.67 1997-10-03 15:40:03 obrien Exp $ -->
<!-- $Id: hw.sgml,v 1.68 1997-10-03 15:46:25 obrien Exp $ -->
<!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
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network. You can use a pipeline and <tt>rsh(1)</tt> to send the
data to a remote tape drive. (XXX add an example command)
<sect3><heading> Pax</heading>
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<p><tt>pax(1)</tt> is IEEE/POSIX's answer to <tt>tar</tt> and
<tt>cpio</tt>. Over the years the various versions of <tt>tar</tt> and
<tt>cpio</tt> have gotten slightly incompatable. So rather than fight it
out to fully standardize them, POSIX created a new archive utilility.
<tt>pax</tt> attempts to read and write many of the various cpio and tar
formats, plus new formats of its own. Its command set more resembles
<tt>cpio</tt> than <tt>tar</tt>.
<sect3><heading><label id="hw:storage:amanda"><htmlurl
url="http://www.freebsd.org/ports/misc.html#amanda-2.2.6.5"
name="Amanda"></heading>