RE: OT : compress & write to tape - how to ?

For what it's worth, I like cpio. I don't know about now, but tar used to have some limitations that make it unsuitable. For example, it used to (don't know about now) have a limit on the number of characters (limit was 80) allowed in a file name that was less that what the OS allowed. I ran into this when tar-ing directories that contained object files generated by the old Rogue Wave C++ stuff.

Back in my sys admin days, I found cpio completely reliable for backing up (and restoring!!) entire systems. It reliably backed up and restore ALL file types (pipes, soft links, devices, etc.).

>-----Original Message-----
>i see various combinations of tar, gzip , dd ...
>on the net to do this task.

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