For everybody who is still interested, I solved this one with a tool called 'split-tar'. It only needs a lot of diskspace free. It can be downloaded at: http://www.informatik-vollmer.de/software/split-tar.html - Jeroen On Saturday 10 July 2004 02:54 pm, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: > The -L option in the man page says, "change tapes after writing N*1024 > bytes." (Ah, the old days.) So, perhaps you should find a way to change > tapes. Maybe play around with the -F <script> option. This lets you run a > script after each volume. With that script you can rename "backup.tar" to > "backup00.tar", "backup01.tar", etc. > > Since the -z option doesn't work with multi-volume tars (taking your word > for it -- but it makes sense), perhaps the script would also run gzip on > them. > > HTH, > Gabriel > > J.L. Coenders wrote: > > That doesn't work for multi-volumes. > > > > - Jeroen > > > > On Saturday 10 July 2004 14:51, Kenneth Porter wrote: > >> --On Saturday, July 10, 2004 2:31 PM +0200 "J.L. Coenders" > >> > >> <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > and it isn't gzipped > >> > >> Add -z for gzip, -j for bzip2. > >> > >> (I haven't used multi-volume, so can't help you with that part.)
