Tar file on multiple tapes

Jay Liang jay at alliant.backbone.uoknor.edu
Sun Oct 7 09:52:03 AEST 1990


Is it possible to tar a single huge file on multiple tapes as dump
would do to handle file systems that are bigger than the tape
capacity?   I understand spliting up the file solves the problem but
it is not graceful (read: ugly).  Thanks for the pointers.

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