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From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>
To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Splitting up sets of files for archiving (e.g. to tape,
 optical media)
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 22:45:11 -0800
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In message <CA+tpaK1riqaXp+Ja=JoBHqEJe1+iM3simMs+qxW4=HHyORdSBQ@mail.gmail.com>
Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> wrote:

>http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/tar.html#Using-Multiple-Tapes

This solution doesn't really fit the problem statement because in the
case of (GUN)tar, some individual files -can- possibly end up being
split across multiple output (archive) volumes.


Regards,
rfg