On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 00:19 +0000, g wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > <snip> > > > What about the people who want to store on tapes (they exist!). Should we > > change the tape archiving software as well? > > tape archiving, ie, cpio and tar, as well as any good tape program, already > have ability to store to more than one tape. > > it is primarily cd/dvd programs that are lacking in ability. Neither tar nor cpio force you to use tape. In fact they are usually not used with tape at all and could potentially be used to prep the files for the burning program. For example, the "--info-script" option of tar could be used to allow changing the optical media between groups of files, provided a command-line burner such as growisofs was used. Alternatively, it would not be too difficult to write a script to traverse the set of files to be backed up and batch them as subdirectories containing symlinks to the real files. Then just burn the contents of each subdir using K3B or whatever. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
