Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: <snip> > Neither tar nor cpio force you to use tape. true. but they are easier to use than a lot of tape backup progs. i never learned to use tar, as i was taught using 'find | cpio'. > In fact they are usually not used with tape at all not true. could be things are run a little different on this side of pond. 'find | cpio' was used by 5 admin's on mainframe systems that i did equipment support on. numerous other admin's for mainframe that i know, also used 'find | cpio' for backup. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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