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From: hsu@santra.HUT.FI (Heikki Suonsivu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: dump/restore
Keywords: cpio is not a real backup program
Message-ID: <16938@santra.UUCP>
Date: 30 Oct 88 08:10:21 GMT
References: <178@celerity.UUCP> <12433@steinmetz.ge.com>
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Reply-To: hsu@santra.UUCP (Heikki Suonsivu)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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In article <12433@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>  Since you're summary was "cpio is not a real backup program" I have to
>ask "why not?" I go between SysIII, SysV, micropost, xenix, Ultrix and
>SunOS using cpio, and it seems real enough for general use. If there's a

My CT miniframe refuses to read cpio output from 386 microport or
afio.  I got around the problem by compiling afio on my computers and
it works nicely, I just patched it to ask next floppy after it really
has flushed the buffers, original did ask for new floppy when still
writing on to it.  I use it for all my backups. Not as fast as fastbacks
etc on dos, but maybe I haven't checked out all the options. Does microport
386 use different DMA channel for floppies? If yes, then it could be
faster?