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From: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Xenix Multi-tape backup
Message-ID: <1281@ispi.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jan 90 15:43:06 GMT
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simon@ms.uky.edu (G. Simon Gales) writes:

>There _is_ at least one version of Xenix whose tar is broken.  You can make
>multi-volume tars, but when you try to reload (un-tar?) them, tar will prompt
>for the next volume only if a file was split across the volume and the next
>one.  If a file isn't split across volumes, tar will simply stop at the end
>of the volume.



This is not a broken tar.  Tar has no way of knowing how many volumes a
backup crosses UNLESS a file is split across two volumes.  All you have
to do is to continue the tar by issueing the same command when it stops.


JB
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