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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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Old 10-25-2004
man tar

Looking for something like this?

-L, --tape-length N
change tapes after writing N*1024 bytes
-M, --multi-volume
create/list/extract multi-volume archive
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