Copying reading to/from Floppy disk

[Seah Hee Chuan]

Hi all

I had copy one of my directory using 'find . -printf | cpio -ocBxv > /dev/rfloppy/c0t0d0'

Now I wanted to know whether my data had been backup on the disk. In addition, may I know how can I transfer what I had saved on the disk to my workstation again.
I had using UX10.20b

[Stephen Keane · Accepted solution]

To see what you have backed up

# cpio -icBvt < /dev/rfloppy/c0t0d0

To recover what you have backed up

# cpio -icBvdmux < /dev/rfloppy/c0t0d0

[Seah Hee Chuan]

Thanks

But when I recover the data from the disk, which directory does it goes to?

In addition, if I wish to copy the data in the floppy to another directory A: what command shall I type?

Thank You

[Stephen Keane]

To answer your first question. As you have selected the files using

# find . -print

they will have a relative path, so when you recover them, they will be recovered relative to the directory you are in when you run the recovery command.

e.g.

Say you have a file /home/foo
If you cd to /home and issue your backup command, you will backup "./foo"
Then if you cd to /tmp and issue your recovery command, you will recover foo in /tmp and get a new file /tmp/foo (unless a file of that name already exists, in which case you will over-right it).

I don't understand your second question, unless you are trying to backup files on a unix box and copy them to a Windows PC?

[Seah Hee Chuan]

Thanks alot

[Seah Hee Chuan]

Thank you