Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!pur-ee!pur-phy!sawmill!mdbs!wsmith From: wsmith@mdbs.UUCP (Bill Smith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: saving directories when they don't fit on 1 tape Keywords: multi-volume tar, archive Message-ID: <1454@mdbs.UUCP> Date: 28 Sep 89 19:18:10 GMT Organization: MDBS Inc., Lafayette, IN Lines: 13 Is there an automatic, reasonably portable way to save a directory and all files beneath it on tape when it does not fit on a single piece of media and can not easily be split at the next level down in the directory tree? I would like something like the multi-volume versions of tar that I have seen (on Ultrix for example) in a Sun environment. dump is the closest thing I've seen, but as I understand the man page, it only works on complete filesystems which is 2 or 3 times more data than I want to save. Bill Smith uunet!pur-ee!mdbs!wsmith