> A long time ago, on unix boxes, I made backups to tape
> cartridges with the cpio utility, because an interresting
> feature of cpio was it's ability to chain several tape
> cartridges.
> Now, at my home, I try to achieve the same thing (save big
> directory trees) on my pc running linux.
I can't help with the rest of your query but have one of my own
related to the above...
I regularly make use of the following command to do multi-volume
backups, both on floppy and on ZipDisks, and I assumed the same
would also work on tapes. From what you say above, apparently not,
but can you confirm such to be the case?
Q> cd /tmp/uploads
Q> tar cMvf /dev/sda4 *
Best wishes from Riley.
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