Hello Jerry & all ,
If it is Slackware the tar binary provided is Gnu-Tar .
Try doing a 'tar --help' & report the output from
'tar --version' . There maybe issues with certain versions
of tar . Another item to look at is can you read floppies on
your system if you don't have mtools avaiable , try
'dd if=/dev/fd0 count=10 | strings'
If that works , try (you will have to reforamt the flopy tho)
'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 count=10'
to see if you can Write to the floppy .
Compressed you are not going to accomplish easily .
Maybe someone else can address a method of compressing the
input INLINE with the multi-volume archive issue .
Hth , JimL
-- Generic descriptions of options used (on my system)
tar --multi-volume \
--label="Some Label" \
--create \
--preserve-permissions \
--same-owner \
--file=/dev/fd0 \
"List Of Files To Backup"
-- The actual command that I used to creat a 4 Volume set tar archive
tar --multi-volume --label="Root-Bin-test" --create --preserve-permissions
--file=/dev/fd0 /root/bin
-- The output from the above command during execution .
tar: Removing leading `/' from absolute path names in the archive
Prepare volume #2 for /dev/fd0 and hit return:
Prepare volume #3 for /dev/fd0 and hit return:
Prepare volume #4 for /dev/fd0 and hit return:
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