On Sunday 29 January 2006 10:28 am, Omer wrote: > ... which produce three distinct files on the tape. How can I merge the > label and the tar file so I can restore it with:
You have to write the entire file at once. Anytime you close the file descriptor (that is, a program exits), the system will automatically write a filemark on the tape. So, do something like (echo $HEADER | dd bs=32k count=1 conv=sync; # To pad to 32kb tar -cf- ...; ) | amdd bs=32k ... Cheers, --Ian -- Forums for Amanda discussion: http://forums.zmanda.com/
