From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 9 22:02:18 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B5B716A41C for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 22:02:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micheal@tsgincorporated.com) Received: from smtpgate.tsgincorporated.com (ns1.tsgincorporated.com [67.66.242.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE3AB43D1F for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 22:02:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micheal@tsgincorporated.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.tsgincorporated.com [127.0.0.1]) by smtpgate.tsgincorporated.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E93F43A8D19; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 16:54:00 -0500 (CDT) Received: from smtpgate.tsgincorporated.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtpgate.tsgincorporated.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 12250-10; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 16:53:59 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mail.tsgincorporated.com (lanmail.tsgincorporated.com [67.66.242.29]) by smtpgate.tsgincorporated.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FB273ABAC2; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 16:53:59 -0500 (CDT) Received: from micheal (micheal.tsgincorporated.com [67.66.242.77]) by mail.tsgincorporated.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A7BE952944; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 17:01:17 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <0ec101c56d3f$6170d940$4df24243@tsgincorporated.com> From: "Micheal Patterson" To: "Cody Holland" References: <4B3EE484EEA4F344BBB62F831648998628DA32@corpsrv.RedMoon.local> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 17:05:42 -0500 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 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at tsgincorporated.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multi-Volume Backup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 22:02:18 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cody Holland" To: Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 4:14 PM Subject: Multi-Volume Backup I'm trying to do a multi-volume backup to hard drive via gnu tar. It works with the following command: gtar -c -L 681574400 -f /usr/local/backup/dev1.tgz -f /usr/local/backup/dev2.tgz -f /usr/local/backup/dev3.tgz / But I really, really need this compressed. If I put a -z in the command it errors out stating: gtar: Cannot use multi-volume compressed archives gtar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Is there any way to do a compressed multi-volume backup, with each volume being 650mb to hard drive? Either with gtar or any other backup method. Thanks, Cody _______________________________________________ You'll need to use the -M flag as well to indicate a multi-volume tarball. >From what I can tell from the man page, a -L doesn't imply multi-volume. -- Micheal Patterson Senior Communications Systems Engineer 405-917-0600 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.