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["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Wednesday 2006-12-06 at 11:29 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:

...
> CPIO is definitely a horse of a different color in the Unix archive tool 
> world. Apart from the fact that it is the basis of the RPM format, it's 
> really an archaic standard, having been supplanted by TAR in the large 
> majority of uses.

I read once that the cpio archive is more solid.

If the tar.gz archive is broken, all of it is broken. The backup program 
that claimed this explained that instead they used cpio, compressing 
each file separately: thus only one file would be irretrievable, not the 
whole archive.


> Naturally, "cpio --help" and "man cpio" will give you the information 
> you need.

I tried - info cpio, actually, man is almost empty - and I almost run 
away. It is difficult to understand, and it has no examples. I didn't 
realize the redirection was needed.

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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