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Date:      Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:17:43 +0200
From:      Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, Peter Giessel <pgiessel@mac.com>, Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com>
Subject:   Re: tape splitter
Message-ID:  <200802251517.44989.nvass@teledomenet.gr>
In-Reply-To: <88863638-0118-1000-C245-84C9BC6E990B-Webmail-10021@mac.com>
References:  <20080222202127.K4838@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <6.0.0.22.2.20080222170409.0259b4f0@mail.computinginnovations.com> <88863638-0118-1000-C245-84C9BC6E990B-Webmail-10021@mac.com>

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On Saturday 23 February 2008 01:41:09 Peter Giessel wrote:
> >>i know dump do this, but i need other thing to be written to more than
> >> 1 tape.
> >
> >Well sonny in the old days we would create a volume with tar or cpio,
> > then uuencode it, then run it through split.
>
> I believe gtar
> ( /usr/ports/archivers/gtar   if I recall correctly)
> can do this directly.

pax(1)  as well supports multi-volume archives. I have used it
once or twice, since the removal of gtar from the base system.

Nikos



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