Re: Splitting tar output, Resolved

2005-08-31 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
logic to time out, forcing it to write a bunch of padding, stop, reposition, get a running start, write a bunch of preamble junk, write one more minimum size block, underrun, write more padding, reposition, etc... I appreciate that, but I want to explore the threshold so I can be

Re: Splitting tar output

2005-08-30 Thread Michael ODonnell
Yikes! Did I attach this to your thread or is that just the way it shows up on my Kmail? I didn't mean to do that. You did, but it's no big deal. If you're going to do mea culpas about your email format I'd rather it was about your MIME headers forcing a UTF-8 charset on us...;-

Re: Splitting tar output, Resolved

2005-08-30 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
You did, but it's no big deal. If you're going to do mea culpas about your email format I'd rather it was about your MIME headers forcing a UTF-8 charset on us...;- Switched to iso-8859-1. Is that better? Your suggest and that of maddog were both on target. However,

Re: Splitting tar output, Resolved

2005-08-30 Thread Michael ODonnell
You did, but it's no big deal. If you're going to do mea culpas about your email format I'd rather it was about your MIME headers forcing a UTF-8 charset on us...;- Switched to iso-8859-1. Is that better? Muy bueno! . . . It is a small gain, but I

Splitting tar output

2005-08-29 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
Greetings, Does anyone know how to create a tar tape archive and disk file archive at the same time? The present system does something like: cd / tar -cf $bkdir/monthly.tar ./ $bkoptions tar -cf /dev/st0 ./ $bkoptions It takes an appreciable time to read and write 8GB to disk in

Re: Splitting tar output

2005-08-29 Thread Michael ODonnell
Does anyone know how to create a tar tape archive and disk file archive at the same time? The present system does something like: cd / tar -cf $bkdir/monthly.tar ./ $bkoptions After that point I'd then instead consider just saying: dd if=$bkdir/monthly.tar of=/dev/st0 ibs=X obs=Y

Re: Splitting tar output (and hairs)

2005-08-29 Thread Jon maddog Hall
Jim, I do not have a tape drive here, so I am doing this by the seat of my pants. [No flames for bad syntax laddies and lassiesI claim late-night excuses, and close enough for government work.] As far as I know, the output stream of tar is the same going to tape or any other device unless

Re: Splitting tar output

2005-08-29 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
Yikes! Did I attach this to your thread or is that just the way it shows up on my Kmail? I didn't mean to do that. On Monday 29 August 2005 09:34 pm, Michael ODonnell wrote: Does anyone know how to create a tar tape archive and disk file archive at the same time? The present system

Re: Splitting tar output (and hairs):

2005-08-29 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
The reasoning-out-loud below leads to a solution (discovery). This syntax did not work? tar cf - ./ $bkoptions | tee monthly.tar - /dev/st0 Correct, it did not work. Both tar and dd give /dev/st0 Cannot read: Cannot allocate memory. At beginning of tape, quitting now. Error is not