RE: Creating a multi-volume archive with tar

2004-08-18 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
Igor wrote: > On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Peter Milliken wrote: > >> Next step is I would like to backup some very large files to DVD. I >> have some video files (>13GByte) that I would like to backup across >> multiple DVD discs (-R or -RW - whichever works :-)). >> >> Has anybody used a DVD burner as a

RE: Creating a multi-volume archive with tar

2004-08-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Peter Milliken wrote: > Next step is I would like to backup some very large files to DVD. I have > some video files (>13GByte) that I would like to backup across multiple DVD > discs (-R or -RW - whichever works :-)). > > Has anybody used a DVD burner as a backup mechanism an

RE: Creating a multi-volume archive with tar

2004-08-17 Thread Peter Milliken
[...] > It's a bug in the Cygwin DLL. > > > If it's not currently available, what are my options? :-) > > Install a developers snapshot of Cygwin (http://cygwin.com/snapshots/) > or wait for the 1.5.11 release which is due VSN. > > > Corinna [...] That certainly did the trick - thanks :-) Sorr

Re: Creating a multi-volume archive with tar

2004-08-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 17 09:06, Peter Milliken wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to write large files across multiple floppies using tar. I am > using tar 1.13.25 and it writes to the first diskette but then stops - no > prompt for the next disk or anything. > > I searched the archives and found the following: > [..

Creating a multi-volume archive with tar

2004-08-16 Thread Peter Milliken
Hi, I am trying to write large files across multiple floppies using tar. I am using tar 1.13.25 and it writes to the first diskette but then stops - no prompt for the next disk or anything. I searched the archives and found the following: > > > >Did you try the -M or --multi-volume option of tar