Re: Newbie: -tsize vs -j

Joerg Schilling <[email protected]> Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:34:41 +0200

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<[email protected]> wrote:

> This is for a 500 cd/dvd jukebox with 2 drives. The backups are handled by a
> tape jukebox. Mtx handles both jukeboxes very well.
>
> I wonder if a loopback file driver against a cd or dvd sized file would
> work? If star recognizes the disk out of space as a EOT that should work. -
> Tried it below - star (bzip2?) doesn't seem to handle the disk full as an
> EOT.

Do whatever you like, but if you like multi-volume AND compression, you need
to handle the compression past star and pass the EOT situation back to star.

Jörg

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