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28 Jun
1998
28 Jun
'98
08:55
C. J. Kenneth Tan wrote:
Does anyone know how do you write a file to a tape, spanning across more than 1 tape? Also, how do you read from it? A collegue of mine came over this at work and he was asking me about it.
... # tar --help ... Device selection and switching: ... -M, --multi-volume create/list/extract multi-volume archive -L, --tape-length=NUM change tape after writing NUM x 1024 bytes ... - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e