On Jan 8, 2008, at 7:29 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
However, if you have one directory you wish to put on tape, e.g. as an
archive of old OS .iso's (in case the origionals get scratched), as
far
as I know, you can't use dump (which is only for entire filesystems).
Or, is there any reason that you can spit an .iso to the tape directly
(and just remember that it is the third file on the tape)?
Perhaps using split(1) on the larger ISO files?
Calculate the size of your tape. Figure out how many chunks you can
fit on each tape, add in an index file at the beginning and end of the
tar session, and tar(1) directly on to tape?
lather, rinse, repeat.
