From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 17 10:03:31 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72BCA1065670 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2012 10:03:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nickolasbug@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wi0-f172.google.com (mail-wi0-f172.google.com [209.85.212.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06D328FC12 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2012 10:03:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhj8 with SMTP id hj8so705697wib.13 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2012 03:03:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=U7eTvF1SyNTza330XM36kyFgMDWnL06Z+WFwAcqUwfA=; b=S9VGtcizfMqiZkpK2+p0+wf1mJhDUhj03uQTHVdenXBMDoE0ZgB8siO/CgdaoheL0F bIvaG6Jbs2L+bAGUqOpMeP4+/NsQEhUvnzUxpz6+txTPqsveF9xwzm2P5mQWCWdU7LTn tgbPHibr8czjytk7dm0FyS6u4ApfTCfetREoVxiGoGexQHTZhhpz9p2KPShBkExYXMMP aPZEyqktt1B4CvhcirXzdzkS/hKAEslRoi31NUWRK1mmlFv+B/qYtafeYldsWL1Z+geO bbXgb3WplDjG6IyHu37T1pzvSFvyrfVFPBnWe2ysXCZUuZ69dBR8QW9CqSGoRwiL/TNR c8LA== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.95.137 with SMTP id dk9mr16271137wib.1.1339927401938; Sun, 17 Jun 2012 03:03:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.194.60.209 with HTTP; Sun, 17 Jun 2012 03:03:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4FDC4A18.1050501@omnilan.de> References: <4FDC4A18.1050501@omnilan.de> Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 14:03:21 +0400 Message-ID: From: nickolasbug@gmail.com To: Harald Schmalzbauer Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (bsd)tar and multi-volume X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 10:03:31 -0000 Hello, Harald. To create multivolume archive, you may use tar + split. ------- wbr, Nickolas 2012/6/16 Harald Schmalzbauer : > =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 > >