From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 10 01:28:39 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 2ABAB16A41C for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 01:28:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB44143D53 for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 01:28:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 9so440698nzo for ; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 18:28:36 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=Lef/jm/rsPEbe2v/6UR8HINy6FOXjCJeUqatop8mEpwrMCoCOcI8XvEluVftbiRPgB4YnY8hGVFBLTEbxtqpWIBEO8UPsST7jBTpfhHZkRGHcGG9ejRAGkGqfa+GB3L0zEJFlvYsHkJKj727Pwx8TX3uCMPAoIfPT6WtAPf2rZ8= Received: by 10.36.106.20 with SMTP id e20mr826672nzc; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 18:28:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ringworm.mechee.com ([4.28.64.41]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 19sm1707704nzp.2005.06.09.18.28.35; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 18:28:36 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael C. Shultz" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 18:28:46 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <4B3EE484EEA4F344BBB62F831648998628DA32@corpsrv.RedMoon.local> <0ec101c56d3f$6170d940$4df24243@tsgincorporated.com> In-Reply-To: <0ec101c56d3f$6170d940$4df24243@tsgincorporated.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506091828.47047.ringworm01@gmail.com> 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: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 01:28:39 -0000 On Thursday 09 June 2005 15:05, Micheal Patterson wrote: > ----- 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. > Look at archivers/rar, also archivers/par2cmdline Sample to make the archive rar a -v650000k filenameOfArchive /dirToBeArchived/* -Mike > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"