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From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Using tar for backups (Re: tar frustration)
Message-ID: <659@splut.UUCP>
Date: 21 Aug 88 00:01:24 GMT
References: <1670003@hpcilzb.HP.COM> <5762@super.upenn.edu> <1990@stpstn.UUCP> <1288@ficc.UUCP>
Reply-To: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
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In article <1288@ficc.UUCP> peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Why don't you use cpio instead of tar for backups?
>Something like:
>find $dir -newer $dir/.backup -print | cpio -ocv >/dev/rmt0
>touch $dir/.backup

Modulo, of course, one particular well-known microcomputer software
vendor's semi-well-known bug on overflowing the cpio backup beyond 15
output volumes...

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