Question about cpio vs. tar

[Tim Thompson]

I've been reading the discussion about the shortcomings of multiple tape
backups in cpio format. Does tar handle multiple tapes better?
I'm the SA for a PDP-11/70 running SysVr2, and currently keep two sets of
weekly backups: one in volcopy format for quick recovery of an entire file
system, and the other in cpio format to recover a single file or groups
of files. But with the problems I've read about cpio in this newsgroup,
I have a question: Would I be well-advised to switch from cpio backups
to tar backups ? Any and all comments and opinions are welcome via e-mail.
Thanks in advance.

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