Re: [TCLUG:8536] cpio examples needed...

["Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <carls@agritech.com>]

>hope this helps.
        ok. thanks a bundle. :)
       
have done a few experimental archives/restores with tar now. will try cpio
and maybe afio (is there an rpm for afio? anyone ever touched it?)
this DDS-3 drive on Linux is slick. :) it's *fast*; and tar beats the crap
out of any of the Winblows backup systems any day of the week. :)
tar czvf /dev/st0 <path> to archive
tar xvzf /dev/st0 <filename> to restore any file you want. :)
beats the crap out of clicking buttons and waiting half an hour and hoping
the damn thing doesn't crash. :) (which it frequently did. Micro$haft Backup
actually had a decent interface as backup systems go; but it crashed about
half the time while trying to start doing something).

Carl Soderstrom
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