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From: Matt Massie <matt@abraxas.wustl.edu>
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Subject: Tarring to disks
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Hello fellow FreeBSD users:

I have a simple question.  How can I make backups to 1.44MB disks usings 
tar?  I would also like to filter the tar file through gzip as well in 
order to reduce the number of disks that I use.

I have tried:
tar --block-compress -z -c -v -f /dev/rfd0a -b 36 <directory>
tar cvfbk /dev/fd0 1440 4 <directory>

and a million other combinations.  Tar begins making the archive but does 
not prompt me to insert the next disk.  When I untar the one disk I can 
restore all the data on the disk but of course that is all.  I really hope 
that someone can help. 

Thanks in advance.
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Matt Massie		 
matt@abraxas.wustl.edu