Multi-Volume Backup

[Michael C. Shultz]

On Thursday 09 June 2005 15:05, Micheal Patterson wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cody Holland" <cholland at redmoonbroadband.com>
> To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 4:14 PM
> Subject: Multi-Volume Backup
>
>
> I'm trying to do a multi-volume backup to hard drive via gnu tar.  It
> works with the following command:
> gtar -c -L 681574400 -f /usr/local/backup/dev1.tgz -f
> /usr/local/backup/dev2.tgz -f /usr/local/backup/dev3.tgz /
>
> But I really, really need this compressed.  If I put a -z in the command
> it errors out stating:
> gtar: Cannot use multi-volume compressed archives
> gtar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>
> Is there any way to do a compressed multi-volume backup, with each
> volume being 650mb to hard drive?  Either with gtar or any other backup
> method.
>
Look at archivers/rar, also archivers/par2cmdline

Sample to make the archive

rar a -v650000k filenameOfArchive /dirToBeArchived/*

-Mike



> Thanks,
> Cody
> _______________________________________________
>
> You'll need to use the -M flag as well to indicate a multi-volume tarball.
>
> >From what I can tell from the man page, a -L doesn't imply multi-volume.
>
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