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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!uknet!cam-cl!tm110 From: tm110@cl.cam.ac.uk (T. Morley) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: TAR to multiple floppies Message-ID: <1992Jun28.214051.22973@cl.cam.ac.uk> Date: 28 Jun 92 21:40:51 GMT References: <memo.494376@cix.compulink.co.uk> <V7VG9K7@taronga.com> <1992Jun28.151916.8744@hemlock.cray.com> Sender: news@cl.cam.ac.uk (The news facility) Reply-To: tm110@cl.cam.ac.uk (T. Morley) Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK Lines: 20 In article <1992Jun28.151916.8744@hemlock.cray.com> overby@cray.com (Glen Overby) writes: >In article <V7VG9K7@taronga.com> peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes: [stuff about splitung files deleted] >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 GNU tar seems to be able to do this anyway, I have used it on a multi- volume tar file that had a disk fault on the 5th disk, by just starting again on the 6th, it said something about bad headers, skipping to the next valid header, and continued from there. Luckily I had only lost some of te X include files and I could recover from another set of floppies! Tim M. tm110@phx.cam.ac.uk