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@gallo.ucsf.edu
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Grittner [mailto:Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov]
Sent: Tue 8/21/2007 6:02 PM
To: Tena Sakai; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] tar, but not gnu tar
>>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 7:28 PM, in message
<FE44E0D7EAD2ED4BB2165071DB8E328C03062B59@egcrc-ex01.egcrc.org>, "Tena Sakai"
<tsakai@gallo.ucsf.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