Afio archiver version 2.5

From: Koen Holtman (koen_at_hep.caltech.edu)
Date: 12/30/03

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    Subject: Afio archiver version 2.5
    Keywords: backup archiver compressed fault tolerant afio cpio

    After being more than 1 year in beta, this new afio version includes
    support for >2GB files.

    * WHAT IS AFIO?

    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.

    * WHAT IS NEW IN VERSION 2.5?

    - 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.

    * WHERE DO I GET IT?

    Version 2.5 is at:
     
      http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~k.holtman/afio-2.5.tgz

    And soon at

      ibiblio.org : /pub/Linux/system/backup/afio-2.5.tgz

      http://freshmeat.net/projects/afio/

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