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- From: mike@array.com (Mike Willett)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Bad Surprise
- Message-ID: <3024@monarch.array.com>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 03:38:27 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.163003.22545@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
- Organization: Array Microsystems, Colorado Springs, CO. USA
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- : tar cvbf 20 /usr/jims
- : This worked fine,
-
- Hmmmm? Maybe tar cvbf 20 /dev/fha0 /usr/jims ?
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- : {Insert next disk or press quit to abort}
-
- Unfortunately, tar is not a mult-volume archiver, and never
- has been in the Unix sence, but..... ustar, a special breed
- of tar, will do multi-volume archives. But... you need
- to use the raw device, /dev/rfha0 to enable this feature.
-
- In Coherent 4.X, tar is a link to ustar. So in 4.0 you can use
- tar cvbf 20 /dev/rfha0 /usr/jims
- to get multiple volumes in an archive.
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- tar cvbf 20 /dev/fha0 file is the single media (tape) archiver
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- I use tar cvf /dev/rfva0 directory to do my backups. Note
- that I do break it into directories, that span no more than
- 3 disks for an archive. Doing more can be more trouble than it
- is worth.
-
- Best Regards, and I can simithize with your losses. A few of
- us learned the hard way... :)
-
- --Mike
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