Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Freitag, 11. Juli 2008 schrieb ext Daniel Iliev: > > > Ah! Now I got it. "tar -M". I've missed that part. I'm sorry. > > No need to be sorry.
Depends.... I strongly recommend not tu use the GNU tar -M extension as GNU tar has a significant probility to not to accept followup volumes when trying to restore gtar multi volume archives. If you like to use a reliable multi-volume implementation, I recommend to use star. > > BTW there is a tool called "splipipe" [1] that can emulate the > > behaviour of "tar -M" without packet writing. I've used it and it > > worked perfectly. > > > > [1] http://ds9a.nl/splitpipe/ > > > > Please don't get me wrong. I'm not advising against packet writing. > > I'm merely sharing the methods for making backup on DVDs I'm aware of in > > hope someone could benefit from the info. Well, I see no relation to packet writing. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- [email protected] mailing list
