From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Sep 21 14:45:51 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 887A312611D for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2019 14:45:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "mout.kundenserver.de", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass Class 2 CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46bD0Z3rDXz4b8H for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2019 14:45:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r56.edvax.de ([94.222.202.13]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue011 [212.227.15.167]) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 1McpeM-1hc4ds25xq-00ZsuQ; Sat, 21 Sep 2019 16:45:46 +0200 Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 16:45:45 +0200 From: Polytropon To: Victor Sudakov Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multi-volume archives Message-Id: <20190921164545.c111a0b8.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20190921063003.GA81956@admin.sibptus.ru> References: <20190921063003.GA81956@admin.sibptus.ru> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:BAGwg50Doiyot+11fEmmlfsTotdpbgiWefopANFfa7QjtOJ9yQd Z1R+aDoUsIC1A4rvxp2e1+/0TEj/sKUqdUXZYfVNIMx6xWSeXWt6mGO5SHF/s6Q3YV4smbM kWbnZv5NCLIr5IiYPaHZbUT9aIMUqe6YZiZqlAKih5pFnHpUV1N2jIgjjmRNwY+32V8k+5l XwoQDOdpBmbIoDQmG7VGA== X-Spam-Flag: NO X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:tnNvWCsZB/k=:BKYVihCv5TaTAps4fg5p0W Uf2ZctfHEaNvk9umE+7l5WRAERz5sIPaWQ5gIEZJGOgT5OUXCWNKdcQbOGyfw/cbQJ2iwFifN 4/F8XZ1MH7N063vynW6XvixnDFqNCjaMKu9GtLAhX5WoCWsL/lpkYIyuN91O9lSo9k+AaYlmJ GdySif7WjLnOP+u5tb9VToU3zfbyEtwphHxiesu6bcWhmvh1MSXoE6qrqyMGZxnqbciMyHIuR 8vIqWr00IF+v8vX3abjxZd1VzMj5SvibsqYH/QXtaj/y7/EOic7Jvy4R+9AkhCZNFEGOYxeMj Od8FV3rxvTZDbFHdms8HFJxhL36ggqDw+jqj4ckLxvKLIfaJLBipwnRCkAZebVg5vLZd7uYg8 lfXiM9WD9PbFdDTyFoQtv50dCorG0nBu1BsfVPxEA0fgMKLBtewE31+5f4E1oEiuXcZ9k9J1x O9Kh0H5EdrT+nVvTHHzdvWalvf/NzD7pBtl6r2s/XVGXDymadqo/PvpVEMe3eQ+a+IDrxNxpi 25BGs0PfhvOYPIaXyVXQR7+xuuwWHRf8WhTl7804M+sbJwpy1XERY3A5gHhwCLz20xLloMx3R 1cseQzYwVpAHznS4IJQ/wzGEwWSb2GRg4mhQmbnvodIOfaVdpJu1tS3jxcLbIlkHsoZqaoP2N rmHwOYXekRU+q1aCqohlWnb6t8unDLimCIAuZAOsmQ5Hn3p7pgEFMzPmCTP99hEmD31SOlg8+ v+KwtoBakgOGUgpZRUT912dEFW0qnW5+3k03fm53V/FOeLKqnBK+xMiEk5IzTXI1Sxde4O8AD bQh+GnR5jYf3wYnPGcCMOir0kZPIUTCXFx+B77wJrqNKBC+ZOd78RS3+ntHlBvxQMqTUHUXts phg8/w+oTelhC4ePJxKW6un7nokIPwN5RVgkEjJ5Q= X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 46bD0Z3rDXz4b8H X-Spamd-Bar: ++++ Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of freebsd@edvax.de has no SPF policy when checking 212.227.126.133) smtp.mailfrom=freebsd@edvax.de X-Spamd-Result: default: False [4.74 / 15.00]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; HAS_REPLYTO(0.00)[freebsd@edvax.de]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; HAS_ORG_HEADER(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:8560, ipnet:212.227.0.0/16, country:DE]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[13.202.222.94.khpj7ygk5idzvmvt5x4ziurxhy.zen.dq.spamhaus.net : 127.0.0.11]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; REPLYTO_EQ_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[edvax.de]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.96)[0.963,0]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(0.94)[0.938,0]; MID_CONTAINS_FROM(1.00)[]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[133.126.227.212.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.5.0]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; IP_SCORE(0.44)[ip: (1.42), ipnet: 212.227.0.0/16(-1.36), asn: 8560(2.13), country: DE(-0.01)] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 14:45:51 -0000 On Sat, 21 Sep 2019 13:30:03 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Which is now the most convenient way to create multi-volume archives? To > fit an archive on a FAT32 flash drive, a volume size should not exceed 4g. > > I have traditionally used "tar | split" to pack, then "cat | tar" to > unpack. But split is very slow, and generally this way is clumsy. Same here, except it was decades ago and involved floppies, so "flop " and "unflop" were the commands I created around split, cat, and tar. :-) > I don't want to use "zip -s" either, because I think zip does not > preserve symlinks, hardlinks, permissions... to cut a long story short, > I don't believe in zip as a Unix archiver. > > Any more ideas? I immediately remember pax - it has multi-volume support. However, I'm not sure if it preserves everything you're interested in. Of course you could use "tar c | pax -B" and "cat | tar x" to get rid of split. If you need compression, pax supports that, too. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...