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> In general, cpio is nicer than tar because you can use the full power > of find to select the files to be backed up. However, with gnu tar, which I believe comes standard with Linux, you can read filenames of files to be written from a file. > (There is also supposed > to be some kind of special file which cpio can reconstruct but tar > cannot.) FIFOs and named pipes - but I believe that gnu tar knows how to deal with them as well. > If you want to use compression with tape, afio is better than either > cpio or tar since it compresses each file, and if you have an I/O error > you lose only one file... This may be a good argument against tar, even of the gnu persuasion. Gary
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