Tar

Richard Yates  writes:

>
>Would anyone like to share their experiences of running utilities other
>than tar (e.g. cpio, [ufs]dump) during Checkpointing on UNIX platforms?
>
>Richard.
>~~~~~~~~

I prefer GNU tar for many reasons.  However, some customers don't like
using Free Software Foundation stuff.  Good quality and low cost always
bothers corporations and governments.

I like GNU tar because:

  1) Free
  2) Less bugs than Solaris tar (query SunSolve for tar bugs sometime!)
  3) Built in compression (your can use compress, gzip, or whatever)
  4) Multi-volume tape support
  5) Better error control 
  6) Dave Letterman uses it (just seeing if you read this list).

Cheers, 

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