saving directories when they don't fit on 1 tape

[Art Gentry]

In article <1454 at mdbs.UUCP>, wsmith at 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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