Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 91654
RFE: afio, a good backup tool
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:31 EST
Description of problem: I would like to see afio into next rh. It's a 'better and more secure cpio': o makes cpio-format archives. o It deals somewhat gracefully with input data corruption o supports multi-volume archives during interactive operation o can make compressed archives that are much safer than compressed tar or cpio archives. o provides more diverse magnetic tape options there is a beta with 2G file support at: http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~k.holtman/afio-2.4.7.9beta4.tgz -thanks- Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
a new _stable_ afio release(2.5) is out - Added support for archiving files larger than 2 GB. The resulting archives are not fully compatible with cpio, but preserve cpio compatibility as much as possible. - Various small bug fixes. - Added support for creating archives larger than 2GB on a filesystem. - New -6 option to suppress the compression of files based on shell pattern matching. - New -vv option for ls -l style file list output when creating an archive. - Restores modification time of directories correctly. - Improved/debugged support for handling many hard linked files. - Support for UID/GID values larger than 64K. - Some additional small new features. - Improved documentation. - Added automatic regression that can be used to test the binary after compilation.
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