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From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Tar with multiple volumes
Message-ID: <19797@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Date: 22 Dec 87 20:40:08 GMT
References: <341@tness1.UUCP>
Organization: Teknowledge, Inc., Palo Alto CA
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in article <341@tness1.UUCP>, mechcrm@tness1.UUCP (Chet Murthy 713+680-8841) says:
> Hi.  I am in the process of writing a multiple-volume tar/cpio/backup
> utility...
> 
> What exactly would be useful in a multivolume tape backup utility, assuming
> it was based on tar?

Ultrix has a multivolume tar called "mdtar" (multiple diskette tar -- don't
ask why).  It works fine except for one irritating feature:  it prompts for
the next volume on standard error, and also prints the "v" flag's output on
standard error.  I'd prefer if the prompts were on a separate stream from the
verbose output (e.g., design a new flag that would send the "v" flag's output
to a file).

Mike Khaw
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