Re: tar-1.13.25

[Gerhard Poul]

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