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Archive Type

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 , while  afio(1) is relatively new 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 one by one which is highly recommended in general and especially when using encryption. The default format is AFIO.

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