How to archive and restore with cpio —03 October 2008

Create archive:

1. cd to the directory that you want to archive
2. find . -xdev -print0 | cpio -oa0V | gzip > path_to_save.cpio.gz

Restore from archive:

1. cd to the directory into which you want to restore the files
2. gzip -cd path_to_save.cpio.gz | cpio -imV

See? Easy as abc ;-)