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Date:      Sun, 17 Jun 2012 14:03:21 +0400
From:      nickolasbug@gmail.com
To:        Harald Schmalzbauer <h.schmalzbauer@omnilan.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: (bsd)tar and multi-volume
Message-ID:  <CAMgYTKugRPK16SfHj=TKgfJyFew7JqpxDDUgLM0hF6iQ%2BcszhA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello, Harald.

To create multivolume archive, you may use tar + split.

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wbr,
Nickolas



2012/6/16 Harald Schmalzbauer <h.schmalzbauer@omnilan.de>:
> =A0Hello,
>
> according to tar(1), the base system tape archiver is bsdtar since 8.x ,
> which lacks support for multi-volumes.
> I guess I can easily omit that restriction by installing gtar from
> archivers/ in the ports collection.
> Is there any plan to implement split volume support again for the base
> system? Any better app to feed tapes these days in FreeBSD?
>
> Regards,
>
> -Harry
>
>



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