*BSD News Article 69057


Return to BSD News archive

Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!fox.almaden.ibm.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!hunter.premier.net!bofh.dot!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!pool!not-for-mail
From: chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu (PRC/IRDS)
Subject: Re: Making a multi-volume backup to /dev/fd0 using tar
X-Nntp-Posting-Host: fang.cs.sunyit.edu
Message-ID: <4nsma9$5t1@fang.cs.sunyit.edu>
Lines: 32
Sender: usenet@sunyit.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome
References: <DrpIsx.y7@ecf.toronto.edu> <4nq2e0$a6n@sidhe.hsc.fr>
Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 15:08:57 GMT

In article <4nq2e0$a6n@sidhe.hsc.fr>,
Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> wrote:
> [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 -=-=-=-=-=-


	I beleive doing this (tar -cvfM /dev/rfd0 *) will create a big
tar file named "M".

Try:

	tar -M -L 1440 -cvf /dev/fd0 *    (or some compfortable combonation)

-L <N>		Change tapes after writing N*1024 bytes.
-M		Create/list/extract multi-volume archive.

-- 
Charles Green, PRC Inc.			             UN*X System Administration
22 Powell Ave. Apt. B 		   	                  UN*X Security   &
Whitesboro, NY 13492 			                     Programming