From: Les M. <le...@fu...> - 2007-01-09 02:49:09
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tm...@ob... 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 les...@gm... |