On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, axacheng wrote:
> I have a big size file about 33G in /home directory !!! and i wanna backup this file into tape device....
> Unfortunately, My tape just 24G(compressd).....so that i must be change tape when data write into tape device...
If tar won't do multi-volumes with your drive, something like:
dd bs=1024k count=20000 if=your.file of=/dev/tape # part 1
dd bs=1024k skip=20000 if=your.file of=/dev/tape # part 2
rob Live the dream.