Xenix Multi-tape backup

[Mike Sanfratello]

In article <13694 at s.ms.uky.edu> simon at ms.uky.edu (G. Simon Gales) writes:
>There _is_ at least one version of Xenix whose tar is broken.  You can make
>multi-volume tars, but when you try to reload (un-tar?) them, tar will prompt
>for the next volume only if a file was split across the volume and the next
>one.  If a file isn't split across volumes, tar will simply stop at the end
>of the volume.

This is not "broken", it is working exactly as it is supposed to.  If the last
file on the tape is not a huge file, it will not be split across volumes and
each volume will be a discrete tar tape.  This has advantages, such as if you
want a file a few tapes in, you can just go to that tape if you know which one
it is.  Otherwise, just run tar separately on each tape.