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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Tar file creation Post 302803443 by Don Cragun on Monday 6th of May 2013 07:02:53 PM
Old 05-06-2013
Note that if tar runs out of space, the archive can still be used to transfer all of the files that had been placed in the archive before it ran out of space. Then you can remove the tar file and restart with the file it was archiving when it ran out of space. (Of course if you do it this way, other people may not be able to create files until you have transferred that partial tar archive and removed it from the local host. And there is also the possibility that you won't be able to transfer the archive if you're out of space.)
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ARCHIVE_READ_NEW(3)					   BSD Library Functions Manual 				       ARCHIVE_READ_NEW(3)

NAME
archive_read_new -- functions for reading streaming archives LIBRARY
Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive) SYNOPSIS
#include <archive.h> struct archive * archive_read_new(void); DESCRIPTION
Allocates and initializes a struct archive object suitable for reading from an archive. NULL is returned on error. A complete description of the struct archive object can be found in the overview manual page for libarchive(3). SEE ALSO
tar(1), libarchive(3), archive_read_data(3), archive_read_filter(3), archive_read_format(3), archive_read_set_options(3), archive_util(3), tar(5) BSD
February 2, 2012 BSD
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