Corrupted backup floppies from cpio

[Joel Clark]

In article <3950 at encore.UUCP> bzs at xenna (Barry Shein) writes:
>
>The problem is that cpio is not a backup utility and it's
>irresponsible to use it as such. This problem is only one of several
>fatal problems with using cpio to do backups. For those who have
>nothing else, my sincerest sympathies, you're driving on ice with bald
>tires, I've been there...
>
>	-Barry Shein, ||Encore||

I find this very interesting considering that the 'sysadm backup' utility
distributed by ATT with SYS V.3.0 etc. uses cpio exclusively.   

Joel Clark
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