Backup large volume group to multiple tape
 

Hi, I have a volume group which has 900GB of size. Is it possible to backup that vg using savevg utility to backup to multiple tapes?

MAN did you just dig up some old school processes lol..

tar has this built in, as tar stands for... tape archive!

http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manu...es.html#SEC161

Its going to be a read, but the above should get you on the right track.

Check out

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/rhel-ce...ape-blocksize/
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-t...command-howto/

And review the -L option for tar.

Kinda realized you might want this info as well :p