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