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From: tim@comcon.UUCP (Tim Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: tar or cpio, which is better?
Summary: tar seems more portable...
Message-ID: <529@comcon.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 90 22:33:12 GMT
References: <57@astph.UUCP>
Organization: Computer Connection, Anchorage Alaska
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In article <57@astph.UUCP>, joe@astph.UUCP (Joe Broniszewski) writes:
> Are there any advantages of using tar over cpio for doing backups?  We
> have both available and I am trying to figure out which is the best to 
> use.  Thanks for all info.
> -- 
Tar seems more portable.  I did some archives on a system running
ISC2.2 and could not read them on an Risc 6000/AIX machine.  I suspect
that if I had remembered to use the  -c option it would have worked
but tar works fine as is.


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