Overview

The most important uses of BRU-creating archives, inspecting or verifying archives, and extracting files from archives have been covered in earlier chapters. In this chapter, we describe some of the more advanced uses of BRU. Among these advanced uses are:

Using a different I/O buffer size

Using an explicit media size

Reading archives from stdin or writing archives to stdout

Using multiple archive devices

Controlling ownership of extracted files

Ways to increase BRU’s speed

Saving archive space by using data compression

Setting up BRU to run with brutalk

Setting the interaction options

Running BRU from cron

Controlling BRU’s I/O streams

Tuning BRU for shared memory

Using BRU to save and restore sparse files

Using BRU with a bootable floppy

Using BRU with remote backup devices

Using BRU to do “live” system backups

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