tar or cpio, which is better?
Tim Brown
tim at comcon.UUCP
Sun Nov 11 09:33:12 AEST 1990
In article <57 at astph.UUCP>, joe at astph.UUCP (Joe Broniszewski) writes:
> Are there any advantages of using tar over cpio for doing backups? We
> have both available and I am trying to figure out which is the best to
> use. Thanks for all info.
> --
Tar seems more portable. I did some archives on a system running
ISC2.2 and could not read them on an Risc 6000/AIX machine. I suspect
that if I had remembered to use the -c option it would have worked
but tar works fine as is.
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