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Here you choose which archive type to use. KBACKUP uses either  tar(1) -format or  afio(1) -format.

 tar(1) has been around since the early days of UNIX , while  afio(1) is newer and not installed on every system. The advantage of  afio(1) is that it is smarter about corrupted archives, so if you have a read error somewhere in your backup, it will still continue and recover as many files as possible, while  tar(1) would just abort. Further on  afio(1) does compression file by file which is highly recommended for reasons of safety. The default format is AFIO.



 
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Jens Ritter
1998-08-18