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- From: stern@amath.washington.edu (L.G. "Ted" Stern)
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- Subject: Re: The backup problem (was Re: tar won't do multi-volume archives)
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- Date: 12 Jan 93 19:53:28 GMT
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- References: <103900@netnews.upenn.edu> <C0JLAn.Hp9@jti.com> <1993Jan11.072222.7301@bronte.boeing.com> <1993Jan11.151640.16986@wam.umd.edu> <C0qFKy.1Dw@sci.kun.nl>
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- In article <C0qFKy.1Dw@sci.kun.nl>, gunter@mbfys.kun.nl (Gunter Windau) writes:
- |> joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) writes:
- |>
- |> >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.
- |> --
- |> G\"unter Windau e-mail: gunter@mbfys.kun.nl
- |> Dept. Medical Physics & Biophysics voice: +31 80 617139
- |> Univ. of Nijmegen, The Netherlands (((()))))))))))))))))))))))
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- It is located at sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/afio-2.3.tar.Z and contains
- a man page. It is also referenced in the FAQ.
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