system backup

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 10:35:17PM -0400, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> Normally you want to do something like that using cpio, and not tar. You 
> can prepare a filelist using find / -prune /dev -a etc etc to remove 
> unpalatable things from the archive.

Not if it's a tar file you are trying to create.

I use afio for backups, but I never have understood the point of cpio.
What does it do that rsync doesn't do for me?

Lennart Sorensen
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