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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Tar Multi-Volume Backups to ZIP Drive Date: 20 Jan 1997 21:00:14 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <5c0mcu$q2k@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32E2203D.41C67EA6@sprynet.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34226 dave blizzard <dblizzar@sprynet.com> wrote: > 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. tar -xvM -L 85000 -f /dev/rsd1 -b 20 ??? Ideally, the device driver should correctly signal EOF, so the -L stuff weren't needed. OTOH, it's quite possible that the driver is broken. I fixed a long-standing bogon in the `fd' driver recently that also resulted in a defunct EOF handling. You should no longer need the -L option to tar for multi-volume floppy backups these days. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)