(bsd)tar and multi-volume

[nickolasbug at gmail.com]

Hello, Harald.

To create multivolume archive, you may use tar + split.

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wbr,
Nickolas



2012/6/16 Harald Schmalzbauer <h.schmalzbauer at omnilan.de>:
>  Hello,
>
> according to tar(1), the base system tape archiver is bsdtar since 8.x ,
> which lacks support for multi-volumes.
> I guess I can easily omit that restriction by installing gtar from
> archivers/ in the ports collection.
> Is there any plan to implement split volume support again for the base
> system? Any better app to feed tapes these days in FreeBSD?
>
> Regards,
>
> -Harry
>
>