From c999d5ddedc8392850e335976e5339b19c6ee92b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Artem Sheremet Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 11:13:19 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Explain multiple tarball import with ignore-zeros --- src/borg/archiver/tar_cmds.py | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/borg/archiver/tar_cmds.py b/src/borg/archiver/tar_cmds.py index e91d04c12..2bbe81854 100644 --- a/src/borg/archiver/tar_cmds.py +++ b/src/borg/archiver/tar_cmds.py @@ -445,6 +445,9 @@ def build_parser_tar(self, subparsers, common_parser, mid_common_parser): - UNIX V7 tar - SunOS tar with extended attributes + To import multiple tarballs into a single archive, they can be simply + concatenated (e.g. using "cat") into a single file, and imported with an + ``--ignore-zeros`` option to skip through the stop markers between them. """ ) subparser = subparsers.add_parser(