[SOLVED] Re: tar

["J.L. Coenders" <fedora universalgrid nl>]

For everybody who is still interested, I solved this one with a tool called 
'split-tar'. It only needs a lot of diskspace free.
It can be downloaded at: 
http://www.informatik-vollmer.de/software/split-tar.html

- Jeroen

On Saturday 10 July 2004 02:54 pm, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
> The -L option in the man page says, "change tapes after writing N*1024
> bytes."  (Ah, the old days.)  So, perhaps you should find a way to change
> tapes.  Maybe play around with the -F <script> option.  This lets you run a
> script after each volume.  With that script you can rename "backup.tar" to
> "backup00.tar", "backup01.tar", etc.
>
> Since the -z option doesn't work with multi-volume tars (taking your word
> for it -- but it makes sense), perhaps the script would also run gzip on
> them.
>
> HTH,
> Gabriel
>
> J.L. Coenders wrote:
> > That doesn't work for multi-volumes.
> >
> > - Jeroen
> >
> > On Saturday 10 July 2004 14:51, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> >> --On Saturday, July 10, 2004 2:31 PM +0200 "J.L. Coenders"
> >>
> >> <fedora universalgrid nl> wrote:
> >> > and it isn't gzipped
> >>
> >> Add -z for gzip, -j for bzip2.
> >>
> >> (I haven't used multi-volume, so can't help you with that part.)