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From: jay@alliant.backbone.uoknor.edu (Jay Liang)
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Subject: Tar file on multiple tapes
Keywords: tar
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Date: 6 Oct 90 23:52:03 GMT
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Is it possible to tar a single huge file on multiple tapes as dump
would do to handle file systems that are bigger than the tape
capacity?   I understand spliting up the file solves the problem but
it is not graceful (read: ugly).  Thanks for the pointers.

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