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Except for reading cpio files, this is also true of GNU tar, it is robust to the point that gentoo can do an 'installation' just by unpacking a tar onto /.

I think this should work in a cron job, someone correct me if I'm wrong:
tar -cpf "$(date +%b%d%Y).tar" /path/to/files It will make files like Feb022009.tar, see 'man date' for date's syntax if you...

You want the cron job to update itself daily? Why not just make one cron job that works for all days?