Sys V and 8mm Tape Units: BACKUP SOFTWARE

[Mark McWiggins]

cgh018 at tijc02.UUCP (Calvin Hayden ) writes:


>	...	  We
>           have had problems on tapes done with cpio when the 
>           tape was unreadable(lost everything beyond that point).
>           We have also had problems if volcopy could not recover
>           from a tape error ...

Get afio!  Afio is a PD cpio clone that knows how to recover/resyncrhonize
after tape errors.  It saved my bacon at a customer site when a cpio
archive I had turned up bad.  Sun's cpio crashed with a core dump, but
afio resynchronized itself and got everything but the one bad file.

Afio should be widely available; I downloaded my copy from UUNET.

Hope this helps.


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