7 Feb
2012
7 Feb
'12
1:29 p.m.
On 02/01/2012 04:18 PM, Alan McKay wrote:
Hey folks,
I looked at the man page and don't see any way to do this - maybe it is a function of the compression program used I dunno.
Is there any way to get gtar to report on the compression it achieved?
I can't just check file sizes because I'm writing data to tape.
The basic problem is that I know how much data is there to begin with but I don't know how much room it took up on the tape so I have no idea how much room is left on the tape.
You could ask tar to automatically request tape change when reaching end of tape:
-M, --multi-volume create/list/extract multi-volume archive
Lec