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From: gentry@kcdev.UUCP (Art Gentry)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: saving directories when they don't fit on 1 tape
Summary: tar and cpio multi tape saves
Keywords: multi-volume tar, archive
Message-ID: <895@kcdev.UUCP>
Date: 2 Oct 89 01:02:49 GMT
References: <1454@mdbs.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Kansas City, MO.
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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?

At least on my Hewlett Packard and AT&T systems, both tar and cpio will do
multi tape saves.  They will write untill eot is detected and then prompt
for another device to continue writting.  If you just hit [return], they
will continue writing to the same device (after you have changed the tape,
of course!! :-})

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