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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!bofh.dot!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!oleane!francenet.fr!itesec!sidhe.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Making a multi-volume backup to /dev/fd0 using tar Date: 20 May 1996 15:17:20 GMT Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4nq2e0$a6n@sidhe.hsc.fr> References: <DrpIsx.y7@ecf.toronto.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sidhe.hsc.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit [courtesy cc of this posting sent to cited author via email] In article <DrpIsx.y7@ecf.toronto.edu>, Frank Ficnar <ficnar@ecf.toronto.edu> wrote: > Is it possible to make a multi-volume backup to diskette using tar? Just use the multi-volume flag: tar -cvfM /dev/rfd0 * and tar will ask you to change the disk whenever it has filled it up. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=-=- FreeBSD 2.x FAQ maintainer -=-=- roberto@freebsd.org -=-=-=-=-=- Support The Free UNIX Systems ! FreeBSD Linux NetBSD -=-=-=-=-=-