Gene's query on the recipe for extracting in the tape headers got me curious. The few I looked at were complete backups. However, I also split my backups into chunks. Those did not have a suitable command line, and I'm not sure you could automate one for inclusion in the header.
The algorithm would be: * extract from the tape and decompress the chunks. * cat the chunks into one monster file. * run tar on the monster file. That would take a lot of disk space, fortunately cheap these days. Still, I wonder if you could cut that down with an appropriate shell script loop. Is this documented? A quick search on amanda.org did not turn it up. -- "When we talk of civilization, we are too apt to limit the meaning of the word to its mere embellishments, such as arts and sciences; but the true distinction between it and barbarism is, that the one presents a state of society under the protection of just and well-administered law, and the other is left to the chance government of brute force." - The Rev. James White, Eighteen Christian Centuries, 1889 Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB https://charlescurley.com
