Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: saving directories when they don't fit on 1 tape Summary: You can use bundle Keywords: multi-volume tar, archive Message-ID: <632@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 29 Sep 89 14:01:46 GMT References: <1454@mdbs.UUCP> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp R&D Center Lines: 21 In article <1454@mdbs.UUCP>, wsmith@mdbs.UUCP (Bill Smith) writes: | | 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? There is a program called bundle in the archives which breaks up a data stream and performs buffering. It will prompt you to mount another tape after N bytes have been sent to the device. Example: tar cf - mydir | bundle /dev/rst8 55000k 60k ^ ^ ^ | | |__ buffer size | |________ device size |_________________ device name -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon