Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!ames!sgi!sgistl!larry From: larry@sgistl.SGI.COM (Larry Autry) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: How to put several files on 1 tape Summary: tar and cpio can do this Message-ID: <5642@sgistl.SGI.COM> Date: 9 Jul 88 17:05:11 GMT References: <755@leah.Albany.Edu> Organization: Silicon Graphics in St.Louis Lines: 46 In article <755@leah.Albany.Edu>, rds95@leah.Albany.Edu (Robert Seals) writes: > > Here's one... either I'm being real stupid (probably) or something > is strangly missing in Unix tape facilites (gosh). > I want to put several files on a tape, each separated with file marks. > -------------------------------------------------------- > |BOT| file1 |FM| file2 |FM| ..... |EOT| > --------------------------------------------------------- > How? > rob Using tar, use the norewind tape device driver. Same with cpio. tar example mt rew tar cv2 file.ext tar cv2 file2.ext tar cv2 file3.ext mt rew To access these files use 'mt fsf n' where 'n' = file number minus one. cpio example mt rew cpio -ovh2 file.ext cpio -ovh2 file2.ext cpio -ovh2 file3.ext mt rew To position these files use 'mt fsf n' where 'n' = file number minus one. If 'mt' is not available on your system. Read over the file not needed with the 't' option instead of the 'x' in 'tar' or the 'i' in 'cpio'. example tar tv2 or cpio ivht2 Then to read the files: tar xv2 or cpio -ivhmud2 -- Larry Autry larry@sgistl.sgi.com or {ucbvax,sun,ames,pyramid,decwrl}!sgi!sgistl!larry