From: mike@hectic.demon.co.uk (Mike Davies) Subject: GNU tar dies on multi-volume archive. Help. Date: 14 Jun 1992 16:39:38 GMT
In article <82flksq.aclark@netcom.com> aclark@netcom.com writes:
> I haven't used the option, but I was doing some research for a tar.1 manual
> I'm working on, and it appears that the +tape-length option specifies "tape"
> size in 1K blocks, thus you should use:
>
> +tape-length 1400
>
> to get the effect you want. I have NOT tested this. Good luck.
>
I've just done a backup (well I *hope* I did) without using the
tape-length parameter. It seemed to work okay and came out at about
the right number of disks. Can tar pick up the device size from the
driver ?
Anyway ... I had done some tests before that and found that the
+compress option caused a similar error to that original quoted.
I didn't use +compress, surprise, surprise !
Mike Davies mike@hectic.demon.co.uk
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