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From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
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Subject: Re: cpio/afio writing directories?
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Date: 6 Jun 88 00:47:01 GMT
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I have switched to afio for backing up files on Xenix
because the resulting archive is much smaller than with
tar, and because afio is much faster than cpio.

Both cpio and afio are meant to be driven by find:
"find caf spool/yam telegodzilla lib -print | afio -ovzb 32k /dev/rct0"

The find -newer option is useful for incremental backups.