Afio  is an archiver/backup program that produces cpio-format ar-
chives.

Like tar, afio can make compressed archives.  However,  the  com-
pressed  archives produced by afio are much safer than tar -z ar-
chives.  If a tar -z archive has a read error, tar is  unable  to
extract the files beyond this error.  The compressed archive for-
mat 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