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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!192.220.251.22!netnews.nwnet.net!news-hub.interserv.net!news.sprynet.com!news From: dave blizzard <dblizzar@sprynet.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Tar Multi-Volume Backups to ZIP Drive Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 08:23:09 -0500 Organization: Sprynet News Service Lines: 26 Message-ID: <32E2203D.41C67EA6@sprynet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hd54-142.compuserve.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34241 While I can create multi-volume backups to my zip drive by using the following syntax: tar -M -L 85000 -cvf /dev/rsd1 -b 20 * This backups the current directory and below with a block size of 20 512 byte blocks. tar asks for a new disk after 85000 1024 bytes written. So far so good. Trouble is that I can't figure out how to retrieve the archive without losing any files that cross a volume boundary. The following line retrieves each disk seperately but not the entire archive. tar xMvfb /dev/rsd1 20 any ideas would really help. dave blizzard dblizzar@sprynet.com -- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Dave Blizzard - VE3SVL Corporate Director of Technology - www.canoe.ca * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *