RE: [Bug-tar] A couple of requests on tar

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Chiu, PCM (Peter) <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> When I come to the restore, the documentation suggests it is possible to
> treat each volume as a single

Yes, as far as it does not begin with a continuation from the previous
volume, which is just the case with:

> /csupport/script/new-tar-volume
> 2005/12/MER_RR__2PNPDK20051220_091822_000025902043_00308_19901_5331.N1
> tar:
> 2005/12/MER_RR__2PNPDK20051220_091822_000025902043_00308_19901_5331.N1:
> Cannot extract -- file is continued from another volume

If you wish to extract that particular file, you'll have to start from a
previous volume (or the one several volumes before, depending on the
size of that file), and give all members where this file is stored with
subsequent -f options, e.g.:

# tar -xv -f /disks/sunny1/system/2005.tar-23 -f 
/disks/sunny1/system/2005.tar-24

> Also, I assume compression is not possible with mulit-volume.

No, it is not.

> But perhaps I could compress the individual files first before passing
> it to tar...

That's possible.

Regards,
Sergey