[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Why does BackupPC use tar instead of cpio? I was always told that tar
> has a serious flaw: any files that occur after a bad block in the tar
> stream cannot be extracted; whereas this is not the case with cpio.
I suspect you have heard this about tar in regard to tape archives.
Most tape drives will not continue to read past an uncorrectable
error on a tape. Also if you have compressed the archive you
can't continue past an error on any media. Otherwise tar will
try to resync on the next header it can find.
--
Les Mikesell
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