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- From: lr@cs.brown.edu (Luigi Rizzo)
- Subject: How to pack a multi-volume tar ?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.084619.6467@cs.brown.edu>
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- Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 08:46:19 GMT
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- I have a large multi-volume tar (created on Ultrix 4.1) on 3 TK50
- tapes. Now that I have access to a DAT drive, I'd like to pack the
- three tapes on a single DAT unit. What's the best way to do it ?
- "cat"ting the three blocks together won't work because tar detects
- the end of archive at the end of the first block. I could copy
- the three blocks on the same tape using /dev/nrmt0h, but don't
- know if tar will be able to read the three of them afterwards
- (and anyway, I'd prefer a single archive on the tape). Untarring
- and recreating the archive looks a bit overkill.
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- Suggestions are welcome.
-
- Thanks
- Luigi Rizzo
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- Luigi Rizzo Brown University & Univ. di Pisa
- e-mail: lr@cs.brown.edu, luigi@iet.unipi.it
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