On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 07:09 +0000, g wrote: > > In fact they are usually not used with tape at all > > not true. could be things are run a little different on this side of > pond. > > 'find | cpio' was used by 5 admin's on mainframe systems that i did > equipment support on. numerous other admin's for mainframe that i > know, > also used 'find | cpio' for backup. You may have misunderstood what I meant. I didn't mean "people don't use tar or cpio when backing up to tape". I meant "people mostly use tar and cpio for tasks other than backing up to tape". This is self-evident given the huge number of tarballs (and some cpio sets) available for download, which have nothing to do with tape backup. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines