From: $ Burkhard Kohl (buk@taz.de)
Date: 09/19/93 

From: buk@taz.de ($ Burkhard Kohl)
Subject: Re: Tape Drive Assistance, Please!
Date: 19 Sep 1993 17:55:04 GMT

Lawrence Gray (lag@casbah.acns.nwu.edu) wrote:
...

: How can I write a script so that tar backs up my laptop's entire 200 mb hard
: drive onto the two tapes.

Read the tar-manpage and try the +multi-volume switch. If the tar command on
the SGI can't handle files split across two volumes, get gnu's tar and
compile it on the SGI.