Xenix tar format
The Beach Bum
jfh at rpp386.Dallas.TX.US
Mon Sep 26 07:40:02 AEST 1988
In article <421 at marob.MASA.COM> daveh at marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond) writes:
>Tar has always choked on files which are larger than the backup volume.
>If there is a magical workaround for this, I wish someone would share it.
>
>BTW, are there *any* copy/backup utilities besides `dump' which do
>allow files to span volumes ?
yes. afio has been out for quite a while now, along with a tar from john
gilmore (gnu at hoptoad) which i believe handles this problem.
afio is VERY well done. i've used it to backup a 270MB database to magtape
[ 78MB reels ] with no problems. it is upwards compatible with cpio and
can be used to produce backwards compatible archives. [ it also runs on
sco xenix and makes streaming tapes scream with reasonable flags ]
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John F. Haugh II (jfh at rpp386.Dallas.TX.US) HASA, "S" Division
"Why waste negative entropy on comments, when you could use the same
entropy to create bugs instead?" -- Steve Elias
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