[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott McDermott) wrote: >I just tar as multi-volumes, set volume size appropriately to fit on a >disk.
Do you even need to set the size? I find this works pretty well: % tar cvMf /dev/fd0 * and at the other end: % tar xvMf /dev/fd0 Apart from when a disk goes bad (obviously), I've never had any trouble with this. -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: <URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4> PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66 13 E2 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .