saving directories when they don't fit on 1 tape

[Superuser]

rice at dg-rtp.dg.com (Brian Rice) writes:

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?

In Xenix one need only edit the /etc/default/tar file to include the size
of the tape (61440 = 60 meg):

archive8=/dev/rct0		20	61440	y
                                        -----
Otherwise, the complete tar argument should work:

tar -cfbkv /dev/rct0 20 61440 [directory-name]

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