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From: sparks@power.viewlogic.com (Alan Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: tar or cpio, which is better?
Message-ID: <1990Nov15.154616.27759@viewlogic.com>
Date: 15 Nov 90 15:46:16 GMT
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In article <1990Nov12.095657.22489@erbe.se> prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) writes:
>Using cpio instead worked just fine. Also, for backup purposes,
>cpio is probably the best. It comes *standard* with the ability to
>detect end-of-tape and create multi-volume archives. It has better
>support for incremental backups and selective restores. And it supports
>longer paths than tar's limit of 100 characters.

Which version of cpio are you running?  The cpio man page on the
Sun here says, "cpio does not support multiple volume tapes."
(unquote).

-Alan
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