GNU tar has a volume size option, but you should look into using 'dump' if you're using it for backup purposes. 'dump' understands how to deal with end of volumes and does a lot of other nice things as well.
- db ----- Original Message ----- From: "Naoshi Kubo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 6:40 AM Subject: multivolume backup Question > 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. > > Environments > z/VM 4.2 > RedHat Linux 7.2 for S/390(kernel 2.4.9-17) > > Naoshi Kubo >
