Using tar for backups (Re: tar frustration)

[Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard]

In article <1288 at ficc.UUCP> peter at ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Why don't you use cpio instead of tar for backups?
>Something like:
>find $dir -newer $dir/.backup -print | cpio -ocv >/dev/rmt0
>touch $dir/.backup

Modulo, of course, one particular well-known microcomputer software
vendor's semi-well-known bug on overflowing the cpio backup beyond 15
output volumes...

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