Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 09:17:46 -0700 From: "David Smithson" <david@customfilmeffects.com> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: cpio tape archive across multiple tapes? Message-ID: <006001c1df18$eb2b30d0$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com>
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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? Is there a way to specifiy the footage, as in dump? There MUST be a way to do this. It doesn't seem likely that I should have to estimate total bytes with compression and break up the files into different archives. -- David Smithson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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