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Re: tar-1.13.25
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Gerhard Poul |
Subject: |
Re: tar-1.13.25 |
Date: |
14 Dec 2002 10:24:28 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
David Ronis <address@hidden> writes:
> I'm trying to write an script that uses tar to create multiple-volume
> backup files of a large disk. I also need to control their length
> (I'm going to burn them onto CD's later). I ran into trouble with the
> 1.13 released version in specifying --tape-length=700000 generated an
> error. This seems to be fixed in the alpha source I'm using. However,
> now it complains about using --gzip with --multi-volume; I'm pretty
> sure that this wasn't the behavior in the past. It seems that you are
> simply spawning the compression off to gzip, couldn't it be handled
> internally? It makes a big difference in the number of CD's I'll have
> to use, unfortunately not in a way that I can predict reliably.
Have you thought about creating a single tar.gz first and afterwards
splitting it up into 700MB chunks?
Sounds easier for me. - and that way you don't have to predict the
gzip size.
yours,
gpoul