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- From: jhgreen@cs.sandia.gov (Jethro H. Greene)
- Subject: Re: [Q] tar destination across multiple volumes
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- Organization: Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 04:00:22 GMT
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- In article <C0o1KH.Ayw@ais.org> sno@ais.org (Stephen Opal) writes:
- >I have heard that tar might be able to store its output across volumes.
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- >In my case I'm looking for a way to archive an entire partition to
- >a floppy device. This floppy will obviously fill up long before the
- >tar is done. Is there a way to get tar to continue on the next installed
- >floppy volume. It seems there would be a bit of a problem with sync.
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- The only thing that I can think of is 'tar'ing to a file, 'split'ing the file,
- and then 'cp'ing the results to floppies.
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- Jethro H. Greene
- Massively Parallel Computing Research Laboratory,
- Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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