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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Tar switches!!! Post 57364 by nikk on Monday 25th of October 2004 06:09:41 AM
Old 10-25-2004
Tar switches!!!

Hi,
If i want to write my data on several tapes, (more than one tape), what switch(s) i need to use with tar.

In other word if my data needs the sapce more than one tape & i don't wanna to compress or ... my data. so is it possible to write up to the end of the tape & it asks to put another tape & write the rest of data on that & so on.

Thanks,
--Nikk
 

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BTAPE(8)					     Network backup, recovery and verification						  BTAPE(8)

NAME
btape - Bacula's Tape interface test program SYNOPSIS
btape [options] device-name DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the btape command. OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below. -? Show summary of options and commands. -b bootstrap Specify a bootstrap file. -c config Specify configuration file. -d nn Set debug level to nn. -p Proceed inspite of I/O errors. -t Open the default tape device. -s No signals (for debugging). -v Set verbose mode. COMMANDS
autochanger test autochanger bsf backspace file bsr backspace record cap list device capabilities clear clear tape errors eod go to end of Bacula data for append eom go to the physical end of medium fill fill tape, write onto second volume unfill read filled tape fsf forward space a file fsr forward space a record help print this reference label write a Bacula label to the tape load load a tape quit quit btape rawfill use write() to fill tape readlabel read and print the Bacula tape label rectest test record handling functions rewind rewind the tape scan read() tape block by block to EOT and report scanblocks Bacula read block by block to EOT and report status print tape status test General test Bacula tape functions weof write an EOF on the tape wr write a single Bacula block rr read a single record rb read a single bacula block qfill quick fill command SEE ALSO
bscan(1), bextract(1). AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Jose Luis Tallon <jltallon@adv-solutions.net>. Kern Sibbald 26 November 2009 BTAPE(8)
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