Chiu, PCM (Peter) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha escrit: > When I come to the restore, the documentation suggests it is possible to > treat each volume as a single
Yes, as far as it does not begin with a continuation from the previous volume, which is just the case with: > /csupport/script/new-tar-volume > 2005/12/MER_RR__2PNPDK20051220_091822_000025902043_00308_19901_5331.N1 > tar: > 2005/12/MER_RR__2PNPDK20051220_091822_000025902043_00308_19901_5331.N1: > Cannot extract -- file is continued from another volume If you wish to extract that particular file, you'll have to start from a previous volume (or the one several volumes before, depending on the size of that file), and give all members where this file is stored with subsequent -f options, e.g.: # tar -xv -f /disks/sunny1/system/2005.tar-23 -f /disks/sunny1/system/2005.tar-24 > Also, I assume compression is not possible with mulit-volume. No, it is not. > But perhaps I could compress the individual files first before passing > it to tar... That's possible. Regards, Sergey
