Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!killer!vector!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Xenix tar format Message-ID: <7105@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> Date: 25 Sep 88 21:40:02 GMT References: <14605@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <421@marob.MASA.COM> Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum) Organization: HASA, "S" Division Lines: 19 In article <421@marob.MASA.COM> daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond) writes: >Tar has always choked on files which are larger than the backup volume. >If there is a magical workaround for this, I wish someone would share it. > >BTW, are there *any* copy/backup utilities besides `dump' which do >allow files to span volumes ? yes. afio has been out for quite a while now, along with a tar from john gilmore (gnu@hoptoad) which i believe handles this problem. afio is VERY well done. i've used it to backup a 270MB database to magtape [ 78MB reels ] with no problems. it is upwards compatible with cpio and can be used to produce backwards compatible archives. [ it also runs on sco xenix and makes streaming tapes scream with reasonable flags ] -- John F. Haugh II (jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US) HASA, "S" Division "Why waste negative entropy on comments, when you could use the same entropy to create bugs instead?" -- Steve Elias