Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:17:43 +0200 From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, Peter Giessel <pgiessel@mac.com>, Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> Subject: Re: tape splitter Message-ID: <200802251517.44989.nvass@teledomenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <88863638-0118-1000-C245-84C9BC6E990B-Webmail-10021@mac.com> References: <20080222202127.K4838@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <6.0.0.22.2.20080222170409.0259b4f0@mail.computinginnovations.com> <88863638-0118-1000-C245-84C9BC6E990B-Webmail-10021@mac.com>
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On Saturday 23 February 2008 01:41:09 Peter Giessel wrote: > >>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. pax(1) as well supports multi-volume archives. I have used it once or twice, since the removal of gtar from the base system. Nikos
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