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On Wed, 13 Sep 1995, Jim Van Zandt wrote: > Dan Demus asks: > >So what do you recommend for backup on Linux? tar or cpio? dump? > >NFS via ISP? > > 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. (I attempted to use ftape for over a year. I > eventually gave up, but in the mean time learned a lot about error > recovery.) > > - Jim Van Zandt > Is the afio distribution available on sunsite? I, too, have been struggling with ftape. I'm beginning to think it isn't worth the trouble. =============================================================================== Vincent Cocco Suffolk University email: cocco at misty.suffolk.edu Boston, MA 02108 ==============================================================================
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