Dear Sergey, Thanks again for showing me how to retrieve a file spanning across two volumes.
Did a quick test to retrieve two volumes and the -M -f -f switches do work beautifully. Then notice that if one 1 volume is specified, it stops as soon as it detects the first file is a continuation from a previous volume. that is tar -xv -M -f ../2005.tar-22 ../2005.tar-23 - works, skip first continuation file in 2005.tar-22, but restores the rest in 2005.tar-22 and 2005.tar-23. # tar -xv -M -f ../2005.tar-23 2005/12/MER_RR__2PNPDK20051216_094412_000025902043_00251_19844_4974.N1 tar: 2005/12/MER_RR__2PNPDK20051216_094412_000025902043_00251_19844_4974.N1: Cannot extract -- file is continued from another volume tar: Skipping to next header tar: A lone zero block at 89191 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors # ls # ie. no file is restored. I intend to use a volume size of 500G, so it will be useful to be able to retrieve a single volume by itself even when the first file is a continuation from the previous volume. But so far very good already, many thanks again. Peter
