Brendan Pratt wrote:
> > a somewhat more efficient approach for tapes:
> >
> > tar -cvf - bigstuff/ | bzip2 | buffer -o /dev/tape -m16m -p90
> >
> > will doublebuffer the output with a 16MB cache.
>
> I haven't got "buffer" here, and am looking for it. Don't suppose you happen
> to know whereabouts it might be hiding? :-)
>
> Thanks again.
Its normally not part of default-installations, but you should be able
to find it near other additional tools in your distribution (bzip2,
apsfilter and so on tend to live near it, too).
Greetings,
Christian
