Hi All, I'm trying to switch to cpio to make backups of my system but I'm getting really bad results. When I create a tar archive: #tar -cv --file /dev/nst0 /home
the tape starts spinning and everything chugs along just fine. On the other hand, when I try to make a cpio archive of the same filesystem: #find /home -xdev |cpio --create >/dev/nst0 the tape spins and then stops and rewinds and then spins and stops etc... Any ideas how to make this work nicer? Thanks, Andy P.S. please cc me on any replies. -- Andrew Dixon Software Engineer Seranoa Networks 978.897.3434 x231