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Afio archiver version 2.4.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Fri Jan 26 20:37:35 1996
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 22:53:57 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: koen@win.tue.nl (Koen Holtman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: Afio archiver version 2.4.2
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
Keywords: backup archiver compressed fault tolerant afio cpio
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.development.apps
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Afio is an archiver/backup program that produces cpio-format archives.
Like tar, afio can make compressed archives. However, the compressed
archives produced by afio are much safer than tar -z archives. If a
tar -z archive has a read error, tar is unable to extract the files
beyond this error. The compressed archive format used by afio allows
it to recover from read errors and go on unpacking the next file.
NEW AFIO VERSION
I have uploaded a new afio version 2.4.2 to the ftp sites
ftp.win.tue.nl : /pub/linux/tbackup/afio.2.4.2.tgz
sunsite.unc.edu : /pub/Linux/system/Backup/afio.2.4.2.tgz
At this moment afio.2.4.2.tgz may still be in the incoming directories on
sunsite.
Most important changes in afio 2.4.2:
- - Bug fixes for multivolume tape reading and writing
- - Introduced new options -a, -U, -P, -Q.
- - Made afio more portable
Note for users of the 'tbackup' and 'tob' backup packages that use afio:
I suggest that you upgrade your afio version if you make
multivolume tape backups. If you do not make multivolume
tape backups, it is just as safe to continue using afio 2.4.1.
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Title: AFIO
Version: 2.4.2
Entered-date: 21JAN96
Description: Archiver & backup program w/ builtin compression
Afio makes cpio-format archives. Afio can make compressed archives
that are much safer than compressed tar or cpio archives. Afio is
best used as an `archive engine' in a backup script.
Author: ..!{ihnp4,sun}!laidbak!mdb (Mark Brukhartz) et al.
Maintained-by: koen@win.tue.nl (Koen Holtman)
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/Backup
65k afio.2.4.2.tgz
Alternate-site: ftp.win.tue.nl /pub/linux/tbackup
65k afio.2.4.2.tgz
Platforms: gcc, gzip
Copying-policy: Freeware. (c) 1985 Lachman Associates, Inc.
Keywords: backup archive compression gzip afio cpio fault tolerant
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Koen.
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