tar
Bob McClure Jr
robertmcclure at earthlink.net
Sat Jul 10 22:57:17 UTC 2004
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 02:35:53PM +0200, J.L. Coenders wrote:
> Probably an easy question for you, but I am fiddling with it for hours and
> can't seem to find out how to make a multi-volume tar file, which is
> preferably also zipped. I think I am approaching it in the wrong way.
>
> with the command below I can make a multi-volume file, however it overwrites
> the last volume with the next, and it isn't gzipped:
>
> tar -ML 650000 -cvf backup.tar *
>
> Any ideas how to solve this?
>
> Thanks,
> - Jeroen
As another noted, use the -z option to get gzipping. "man tar" for
more info.
As for the "-ML 650000", I think that works only on tapes, where you
change the media. So if you told it to write to /dev/sometape
(instead of backup.tar), it still expects to write the next volume to
/dev/sometape, so, in the same way, it (reasonably) continues writing
to backup.tar.
I think you need another solution to your multi-volume file approach.
Cheers,
--
Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
robertmcclure at earthlink.net http://www.bobcatos.com
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