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From: michael@yonder.UUCP (Michael E. Haws)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.misc
Subject: Re: Need assistance with afio problem.
Summary: Confusion about -Z option
Keywords: afio
Message-ID: <451@yonder.UUCP>
Date: 29 May 91 03:22:34 GMT
References: <1991May26.203103.19212@chinacat.unicom.com> <29927@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1991May28.172728.26275@gjetor.geac.COM>
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In article <1991May28.172728.26275@gjetor.geac.COM>, adeboer@gjetor.geac.COM (Anthony DeBoer) writes:
> The difference is in what you mean by "compress during backup".  The easy way
> to do it is "find | cpio | compress | dd", to compress the whole backup in one
> pass.  An error in the middle of the tape could screw up the decompression for
> the whole remainder of the tape.

The version of afio that I am using came from the Ohio State archives and the 
compression extension was added by Jeff Buhrt.  It does not compress the
the cpio archive as a whole but compresses each file individually before it
puts it in the archive.
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