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From: mark@intek01.UUCP (Mark McWiggins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.att,comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Sys V and 8mm Tape Units: BACKUP SOFTWARE
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Date: 4 Dec 89 18:43:31 GMT
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cgh018@tijc02.UUCP (Calvin Hayden ) writes:


>	...	  We
>           have had problems on tapes done with cpio when the 
>           tape was unreadable(lost everything beyond that point).
>           We have also had problems if volcopy could not recover
>           from a tape error ...

Get afio!  Afio is a PD cpio clone that knows how to recover/resyncrhonize
after tape errors.  It saved my bacon at a customer site when a cpio
archive I had turned up bad.  Sun's cpio crashed with a core dump, but
afio resynchronized itself and got everything but the one bad file.

Afio should be widely available; I downloaded my copy from UUNET.

Hope this helps.


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