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From: rick@potpourri.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Question about cpio vs. tar
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Date: Fri, 19-Sep-86 10:18:16 EDT
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>    I've been reading the discussion about the shortcomings of multiple tape
>    backups in cpio format. Does tar handle multiple tapes better?
>    I'm the SA for a PDP-11/70 running SysVr2, and currently keep two sets of
>    weekly backups: one in volcopy format for quick recovery of an entire file
>    system, and the other in cpio format to recover a single file or groups
>    of files. But with the problems I've read about cpio in this newsgroup,
>    I have a question: Would I be well-advised to switch from cpio backups
>    to tar backups ? Any and all comments and opinions are welcome via e-mail.
>    Thanks in advance.
>    
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