On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 03:33:27PM -0500, Doug McLaren wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 02:33:05PM -0500, chris wrote: > > | > tar has multiple volume support as well, though I suspect that rar > | > would be better all around. > | > | easier, sure, but i used multiple volume support from a script to just > | make 28 dvd-sized tarfiles of my mp3 archive and let it go all night. > | the benefit of this methodology over the split(1) version is that each > | archive is independently whole and can be untarred if one disk out of > | a group backup fails. > > Right, split is less than ideal. > > However, gnu tar can start reading in the middle of a big tar file in > most cases. > > Though my little program would be the best solution if you want to > find random files on a disk, since they'd be right there, no decoding > at all.
agreed. especially as sizes grow (my 28-dvd archive is a nightmare to try to use. fortunately i haven't had to do so except to prove to myself that it works..) _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [email protected] http://www.utacm.org:81/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
