tar

["J.L. Coenders" <redhat-install-list universalgrid nl>]

Probably an easy question for you, but I am fiddling with it for hours and 
can't seem to find out how to make a multi-volume tar file, which is 
preferably also zipped. I think I am approaching it in the wrong way.

with the command below I can make a multi-volume file, however it overwrites 
the last volume with the next, and it isn't gzipped:

tar -ML 650000 -cvf backup.tar *

Any ideas how to solve this?

Thanks,
- Jeroen