| gabriel rosenkoetter on Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:01:08 -0500 |
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On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:32:40PM -0500, Gregson Helledy wrote: > According to a book I once read, cpio is better than GNU tar. > I've forgotten the book's reasoning, but I'm using cpio to make > backups on my dialup gateway/printserver/fileserver. > > Without starting a vi/emacs-style war, is there any real advantage > of one over the other for small (~500MB) backups? Portability. The differences between tar file formats are obscure, not things you're going to encounter on a regular basis. cpio formats, on the other hand is a scary, scary topic. Just about every Unix vendor (commercial or otherwise) has their own special idea of what the file should look like, and they often conflict. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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