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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>
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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



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