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- From: gunter@mbfys.kun.nl (Gunter Windau)
- Subject: Re: The backup problem (was Re: tar won't do multi-volume archives)
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:29:21 GMT
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- joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) writes:
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- >It seems to me the best way to go would be to compress each file
- >before it's put in the tar file, and then (obviously) decompress it
- >for restores. [.......]
-
- If I remember right there is a program called afio that does just this.
- It creates a multi volume cpio style archive by reading files from
- stdin. It figures out for each file if it's worth being compressed.
- Anyone who knows more about this?
-
- Gunter.
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