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Multi-volume backup to HDD

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ManagerJay

IS-IT--Management
Jul 24, 2000
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I am trying to use tar in order to create several 600 MBish size tar files so I can then burn these tar files to CD. This may be put into a script file later and set to run in the middle of the night when no-one is using the server.

I have tried

tar -cv L 50 M f /hdd2/Tar1.tar /start/directory

but I am not prompted for the next file name to be used.

Is this something that can be accomplished using tar, or do I need to look at other programs, or perhaps writing a script to accomplish this?

Thanks in advance for your assistance.



Jay
 
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