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How you back up is your choice..of course. The test of any backup type is your ability to successfully restore it, both on the source system and on a replacement system if the source system ever...

For individual files there is possibly a 2GB limit (I havent tested that limit myself), however the cpio archive itself can go to multiple GB's.

I dont recommend multi tapes with CPIO.

To fit more onto a tape, I would suggest you use 'compress -H' to compress the data. Your initial find command is piped to compress -H which in turn is...