tar or cpio, which is better?

[Tim Brown]

In article <57 at astph.UUCP>, joe at astph.UUCP (Joe Broniszewski) writes:
> Are there any advantages of using tar over cpio for doing backups?  We
> have both available and I am trying to figure out which is the best to 
> use.  Thanks for all info.
> -- 
Tar seems more portable.  I did some archives on a system running
ISC2.2 and could not read them on an Risc 6000/AIX machine.  I suspect
that if I had remembered to use the  -c option it would have worked
but tar works fine as is.


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