On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 18:40, you wrote: > Hello > > I have a question about multivolume backup. > I want to take a backup to 3490 tape by using 'tar' command. > But the size of data is too big to copy within one tape volume. > Please tell me how to copy to multiple tape volumes by using 'tar' command.
Everyone will tell you about tar. You should also consider cpio, pax and afio. I like the last because you can tell it the size of the volume9s) and to compress files and it writes that amount of compressed data to tape. You might not be so keen on software compression on S/390, but it also has the advantage that if you have an error on the tape, you can still recover files after that point. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
