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Afio makes cpio-format archives. It deals somewhat gracefully with |
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Afio makes cpio-format archives. It deals fairly gracefully |
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input data corruption. Supports multi-volume archives during |
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with potential input data corruption. Supports multi-volume |
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interactive operation. Afio can make compressed archives that are |
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archives during interactive operation. Afio can make |
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much safer than compressed tar or cpio archives. Afio is best used as |
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compressed archives that are much safer than compressed tar, |
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an `archive engine' in a backup script. |
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or cpio archives. Afio has a tremendous number of options. |
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Afio might be best used as an `archive engine' in a backup |
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Afio has far too many options and features (some of which are not even |
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WWW: http://BSDforge.com/projects/sysutils/afio/ |
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in the manual page). Anything in afio that doesn't relate to reading |
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or writing an archive from/to a simple file or pipe or backing up and |
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restoring from floppies remains untested. |
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Typical `tested' afio uses are |
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... | afio -o -v -f -b 1024 -s 1440x -F -Z /dev/fd0H1440 |
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... | afio -o -v -s 1440k -F -V -Z -G1 /dev/fd0H1440 |
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afio -oZvx /tmp/pipe1 </tmp/pipe2 |
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afio -i -Z -k -v -x -n /tmp/pipe1 |
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... | afio -s 512m -c 1024 -Z -T 20k -G 1 -E /backup/compressed -v -o \ |
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-L /backup/LOG -z /dev/tape 2>/dev/tty8 >/var/adm/backup |
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WARNING: the code for -F (and -f and -K) is a complete mess. It will |
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probably work in the normal case, but don't expect it to handle a |
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write/verify error correctly. If you get such an error, best thing is |
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to restart afio completely. |