backups spanning tapes help

[Tim Greening-Jackson]

I believe you should use the "M" flag.

# tar cvfM /dev/foo .

or some such. But that was a long time ago, on an operating system far away.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Brent
> Sent: 26 December 2005 13:05
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: backups spanning tapes help
> 
> We use a freebsd box that has a old 8mm library drive attached that we use
> for
> backups..my question is these tapes hold 7gigs native or 14 gig compressed
> ..One i cant seem to get compression going so i was wondering how do you
> span
> tapes using tar ? Unless theres another way to do this
> 
> thank you for your help & Merry Christmas
> 
> --
> Brent Bailey CCNA
> Bmyster LLC
> 
> 
> --RIP Brother Dime--
> 
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