On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Dave Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Tape drives and their media are large and expensive so I use writeable > DVDs for my backups instead. GNU tar can write an archive across > multiple tapes, using up any remaining space on one tape before moving > to the next, but it cannot do the same on a DVD. > > A possible solution is to use 'split' to cut up a backup into smaller files > and distribute them across DVDs:
Indeed. But there already exists software more specifically suited to this. See for example "dar": http://dar.linux.free.fr/ James. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
