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.) > >
