From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 10 3: 1:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dns.perimeter.co.za (dns.perimeter.co.za [196.25.164.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA1B237B404 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 03:01:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from PATRICK (loopback.mipjhb [209.212.102.245] (may be forged)) by dns.perimeter.co.za (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g3AA0fL21502; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:00:42 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from bsd@perimeter.co.za) Message-ID: <008d01c1e076$50d98540$b50d030a@PATRICK> From: "Patrick O'Reilly" To: "David Smithson" , References: <006001c1df18$eb2b30d0$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> Subject: Re: cpio tape archive across multiple tapes? Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:58:44 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Smithson" > Hi. I'm backing up a directory of scans that came in for one of our > projects. It happens to be more data than can fit on one 2402 ft. DTF tape. > I used tar to make a backup, but when it reaches the end of the tape, it > just exits with an error. I've decided I want to use cpio instead. Is > there any way to tell cpio to ask for a new tape when it reaches the end of > one? I have not used cpio for a while, but I seem to remember using -I and -O options to ensure that media changes would occur in an orderly fashion. Patrick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message