Re: tape splitter

2008-02-25 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Saturday 23 February 2008 01:41:09 Peter Giessel wrote: i know dump do this, but i need other thing to be written to more than 1 tape. Well sonny in the old days we would create a volume with tar or cpio, then uuencode it, then run it through split. I believe gtar (

Re: Re: tape splitter

2008-02-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
2. Outputs chunks in specified directory. You can configure it to write directly to tape, but it's not the best solution. 3. Can be configured to write only N chunks and after that wait for SIGUSR1 to write next. 4. Can be configured to write MD5-digest of every piece in separate file. I use

tape splitter

2008-02-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
anybody know program to split data (from stdin) on tapes like that something|splittotapes /dev/sa0 and then concattapes /dev/sa0 |something i know dump do this, but i need other thing to be written to more than 1 tape. ___

Re: tape splitter

2008-02-22 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:23 PM 2/22/2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: anybody know program to split data (from stdin) on tapes like that something|splittotapes /dev/sa0 and then concattapes /dev/sa0 |something i know dump do this, but i need other thing to be written to more than 1 tape. Well sonny in the old

Re: tape splitter

2008-02-22 Thread Peter Giessel
On Friday, February 22, 2008, at 02:07PM, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:23 PM 2/22/2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: anybody know program to split data (from stdin) on tapes like that something|splittotapes /dev/sa0 and then concattapes /dev/sa0 |something i know dump do this, but i

Re: tape splitter

2008-02-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
uuencode it, then run it through split. You could then move the split pieces onto removable media and reassemble it on another system. To put split piece back together you just cat them: cat split2 split2 total.uu then uudecode it to restore the original file. i know this but it makes