Re: [SLUG] Tar Question

[Dennis Gray <dmgray@nospam.fareast.com.au>]

It sounds like that would involve running tar with an append, thus opening
and closing the tape about 800+ times for each file to be appended as they
are created.

Dennis

On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Dave Fitch wrote:

> 
> Dennis Gray <dmgray@nospam.fareast.com.au>
> > Somehow I would have to keep tar "open" accepting files
> > and then close it. There may be a perfectly simple solution to this but I
> > am not a complete Unix guru so I haven't been able to figure it out yet.
> > 
> > All ideas for solutions appreciated.
> 
> you can create a tar archive on tape (tar c) then update the
> archive (tar u) in separate operations and at a later time.
> 
> Dave.
> 

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