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Forwarded message: request for help



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.
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