Tape backup performance on 386 ISA/EISA systems

[Keith Ericson]

In article <1990May25.123302.26061 at virtech.uucp> cpcahil at virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
<30MB and be backed up using the following command (so that everybody
<uses the same mechanism):
<
<	/bin/time sh -c "find . -print | cpio -oBcC 10240 > /dev/rmt0"
<
<Note that you may adjust the block size (10240) as you feel is appropriate
<for your system as long as you tell me what you used.  

Doesn't cpio bitch about the inclusion of both the "B" and "C 10240" command
tail?  They're redundant/competing flags to cpio...  ("B" == "C 512").

kEITHe