There's a detailed discussion of this at
http://www.backupcentral.com/native-backup-utils.html
on that page there is a comparison chart
http://www.backupcentral.com/native-comparison.html
The excerpts are from the oreilly unix backup book. The start of the
excerpts is here... http://www.backupcentral.com/toc-excerpts.html
-Kervin
Sanchet Surendra Dighe wrote:
>
> One related question ---
>
> which one is better :
>
> (a) Using tar to archive and compress, OR
> (b) Using cpio to archive and then compressing it ?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Thursday, April 26, 2001 9:32 am
> Subject: Re: How to tar and gzip a directory?
>
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > The 'tar' command on unix has the feature to do both compress
> > & gzip after
> > doing the 'tar'
> >
> > For tar & compress
> >
> > use this
> >
> > tar -cfZ <the directory name> <o/p filename>
> >
> > For uncompressing & untaring the same
> >
> > tar -Zxf <the file.tar.Z>
> >
> >
> >
> > For tar & gzip
> >
> > tar -cfz <the directory name> <o/p filename>
> >
> > For gunzipping & untaring the same
> >
> > tar -zxf <the file.tar.gz>
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
> > SwamiNathan P R
> >
> >
>
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