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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!nyx!smace From: smace@nyx.cs.du.edu (Scott Mace) Subject: Re: gnu tar multi-volume with floppies Message-ID: <1993Apr9.072932.5016@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University of Denver for the Denver community. The University has neither control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users. Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account) Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept. References: <1993Apr5.234207.7313@unet.net.com> <1993Apr7.122623.5433@martha.utcc.utk.edu> Date: Fri, 9 Apr 93 07:29:32 GMT Lines: 35 In article <1993Apr7.122623.5433@martha.utcc.utk.edu> frank@martha.utcc.utk.edu (frank segner (phrank)) writes: >dsilvia@blunt.net.com (Dave Silvia) writes: >: I've succeeded in creating multi-volume tar floppies, but the extraction only >: reads the first floppy. Here's the scenario: >: >: tar -L 1440 -cvMzf /dev/rfd1a <dir> >: This works just fine and prompts for the next volume. But on the extract: >: tar -M -xvzf /dev/rfd1a /dev/rfd1a >: the first volume gets to the end and emits: >: tar: Skipping to next file header ... >: >: Then lands me back at the command line prompt. I even tried '+multi-volume' >: with no success. I originally added the -L 1440 to the create since I noticed >.. > >try: >agate.berkeley.edu:/pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/unofficial/from-ref/public/diskback > This is the major problem with using just tar. It will not to multi-volume compressed archives. The only way you can to this is the tar your whole disk (or parts of it) into one big tar file, and then dump it to floppy with tar's multi volme operation. I have recently copmleted a major over haul of my diskback-0.1 program. It seems to work alot better. And will be releasing it just as soon as I finish up testing it. Scott Mace -- ********************************************************************* * Scott Mace internet: smace@nyx.cs.du.edu * * emace@tenet.edu * *********************************************************************