Xenix tar format

[The Beach Bum]

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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