Xenix Multi-tape backup
Jonathan Bayer
jbayer at ispi.UUCP
Wed Jan 17 02:43:06 AEST 1990
simon at ms.uky.edu (G. Simon Gales) writes:
>There _is_ at least one version of Xenix whose tar is broken. You can make
>multi-volume tars, but when you try to reload (un-tar?) them, tar will prompt
>for the next volume only if a file was split across the volume and the next
>one. If a file isn't split across volumes, tar will simply stop at the end
>of the volume.
This is not a broken tar. Tar has no way of knowing how many volumes a
backup crosses UNLESS a file is split across two volumes. All you have
to do is to continue the tar by issueing the same command when it stops.
JB
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