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From: overby@cray.com (Glen Overby)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: TAR to multiple floppies
Message-ID: <1992Jun28.151916.8744@hemlock.cray.com>
Date: 28 Jun 92 20:19:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: hemlock.1992Jun28.151916.8744
References: <memo.494376@cix.compulink.co.uk> <V7VG9K7@taronga.com>
Organization: /dev/null, the place everybody dumps on
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In article <V7VG9K7@taronga.com> peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Another possibility is to write a wrapper for tar/cpio/whatever that
>chops the job up into appropriately-sized chunks. I have one for CPIO

Andy Tanenbaum wrote something like this for Minix

	vol [-u] size device

It splits up stdin onto multiple disks or joins them together on stdout.
Works with "anything".

A few things that would be nice to add: disk sequence numbers (this
may have been) and the ability to detect EOF on a device rather than
specifying the size.  A CRC per disk would be nice, too.

The problem: what do you do when disk 3 of a 20-part disk set goes bad?
I remember a "badtar" program that could resync and recover the rest of
the tar file.

Glen Overby