[chuug] tape question

[Chris Hapgood]

You might look at Amanda.  It recently added functionality for splitting across tapes and you might be able to use their technique.

Chris Hapgood
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-----Original Message-----
From: chuug-bounces at donar.cv.nrao.edu [mailto:chuug-bounces at donar.cv.nrao.edu] On Behalf Of Josh Malone
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 11:04
To: chuug at nrao.edu
Subject: [chuug] tape question

I have a puzzler that I'm hoping someone can help solve.

I have 1 command that spits lots of data (a tar stream, actually) out
on stdout.  I need to make that stream go to a tape....but - I need to
be able to span tapes. I.e., I'm looking for a program that will take
stdin and write it to tape while interactively allowing me to change
tapes.

Does anybody know of such a program (or a techinique I could use to
create said program in perl, etc.)?  I've been unable to convince tar,
pax or cpio to do that for me - although that's not to say there isn't
a way.

Thanks in advance,

-Josh

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Joshua  Malone                     www.ubergeeks.com/~jmalone
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