From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 10 0: 8:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rotini.customfilmeffects.com (rotini.customfilmeffects.com [66.134.82.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03FCE37B419 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 00:07:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ethel (ethel.customfilmeffects.com [192.168.1.8]) by rotini.customfilmeffects.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g38GAWi14537 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 09:10:32 -0700 Message-ID: <006001c1df18$eb2b30d0$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> From: "David Smithson" To: Subject: cpio tape archive across multiple tapes? Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 09:17:46 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi. I'm backing up a directory of scans that came in for one of our projects. It happens to be more data than can fit on one 2402 ft. DTF tape. I used tar to make a backup, but when it reaches the end of the tape, it just exits with an error. I've decided I want to use cpio instead. Is there any way to tell cpio to ask for a new tape when it reaches the end of one? Is there a way to specifiy the footage, as in dump? There MUST be a way to do this. It doesn't seem likely that I should have to estimate total bytes with compression and break up the files into different archives. -- David Smithson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message