Re: tar-1.13.25

[Paul Eggert]

> From: David Ronis <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 18:04:37 -0500
> 
> 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.

If I recall correctly, it's never been supported, even if it seemed to
work sometimes.

> It seems that you are simply spawning the compression off to gzip,
> couldn't it be handled internally?

Sure, if someone would write the code....

> One other feature request/query.  Ideally, what I expect to have is a
> series of backup-files, foo.tgz.1, foo.tgz.2,

Thanks for the suggestion; I'll add it to the todo list.