sometime back I had a way to copy-in from a cpio file to a temp directory,
or, to put it another way, copying directory tree(s) stored in a cpio archive
to a mount pt other than /
but I forgot how.
i;m creating cpio files with this command:
Code:
cat FILES |cpio -aov -H crc | gzip --best - > filename.crc.gz
where FILES looks like
/home/jxi/.ICEauthority
/home/jxi/.bash_history
/home/jxi/.Xauthority
...and so on. files from /home /etc /root ...
I want to copy-in (reload) the files onto a temp space for the purpose of running `diff -r` against the contents of a 'parallel' tar command's resulting file , i.e, one created in the same script about the same time.
(I'm looking at replacing tar with cpio for scheduled backups )
but when i issue e.g.,
(gunzip file into /tmp)
Code:
mkdir /tmp/cpio_dump
cd /tmp/cpio_dump
cpio -i -vdm </tmp/filename.crc
... it starts trying to replace the files in their original places starting at /
if ./ follows the command it does nothing (ctrl-c is needed to kill it)
Now, cpio pass-thru mode lays down dirs, files in a new location easily as in:
Code:
cd <directory-structure-to-be-copied>
find . -xdev -print | cpio -pdumv <path_to_new_directory>
... how to get this action with copy-in mode?
