Dan, if you have been happy with tar then use the -M switch (MultiDisk)
option. When it runs out of space it will ask for new disk.
Dan Ferris wrote:
> I would like to be able to backup my home directory to a couple
> zip disks. I have used tar in the past to do this, only problem
> is that, tar being tar, it barfs and dies when the disk runs out
> of space. So, I have decided to use cpio.
>
> So, the question is...
>
> Is there a way to exclude directories and files to be backed up.
> tar uses a --exclude= argument, and it accepts a file, directory,
> or wild card characters. Does cpio use something like this? Or
> am I in for a bit of shell programming???
>
> Dan
