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Also sprach khym@azeotrope.org (khym@azeotrope.org)
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 11:59:36AM -0700, Ben Collver wrote:
> > I don't need to stick with the cpio format.  I'd like to understand what
> > is going wrong.  If a field is busting an 18bit limit, I wonder which
> > one?  Of the archiver programs and formats in the NetBSD base system,
> > which would you recommend?

dump and restore. Both are *very* reliable, dump was the undisputed winner=
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of a backup program reliability benchmark I performed[1]. The biggest losers
are tar, cpio and pax. Which is not surprising, if one keeps in mind
how the work.

There is a very good description of dump and all the other programs in
W. Curtis Preston's "Unix Backup & Recovery" by O'Reilly

[1] http://www.net-tex.de/backup.pdf [pages 107-117]
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http://www.cryptomancer.de

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