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>My tar backups have started hitting the end of tape.
>
>I'm using a LTO-1 drive which does compression on the fly so the
>amount of data a tape holds varies based on the data content.
>
>Does anyone know a way to tell tar to proceed to the next tape without
>having to artificially restrict the tapes capacity.  ie. tell tar that
>a tape holds 150 GB because your sure it can hold at least that much.
>
>FYI: I used to run my tar backups thru a little known program called
>mbuffer.  This used to work and handle the tape swapping, but since I
>upgraded to SUSE 10, it fails.
>
>Thanks
>Greg
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Hey,
Have you tried the man pages.   You know &quot;man woman&quot;   hehehehe

There are some options -L and -M, but I have not tried this.  I have the 
same problem.  It is on my do later list.   Most of the backup programs 
I have seen try to be to complex.  I just want to write to the tape,  
not make a database.

Adrin



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