Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:41:09 -0800 From: Peter Giessel <pgiessel@mac.com> To: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tape splitter Message-ID: <88863638-0118-1000-C245-84C9BC6E990B-Webmail-10021@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20080222170409.0259b4f0@mail.computinginnovations.com> References: <20080222202127.K4838@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <6.0.0.22.2.20080222170409.0259b4f0@mail.computinginnovations.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Friday, February 22, 2008, at 02:07PM, "Derek Ragona" <derek@computinginnovations.com> wrote: >At 01:23 PM 2/22/2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>anybody know program to split data (from stdin) on tapes like that >> >>something|splittotapes /dev/sa0 >> >>and then >> >>concattapes /dev/sa0 |something >> >> >>i know dump do this, but i need other thing to be written to more than 1 tape. > >Well sonny in the old days we would create a volume with tar or cpio, then >uuencode it, then run it through split. I believe gtar ( /usr/ports/archivers/gtar if I recall correctly) can do this directly. See the manual for more details: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/tar.html#SEC153
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?88863638-0118-1000-C245-84C9BC6E990B-Webmail-10021>