Re: tar and the braindead man
Ok Kenneth,
I must be missing something here, other than my mind of course. This is
the requirment:
I have a tape with a tar file on it, lets call it thefile.tar . I need to
make two copies of that file, back on two other tapes. So I will have
three tapes with three identical copies of this tar file.
I got thefile.tar off of the original tape using
tar -xv ./thefile.tar -C /usr/thedirectorystore
The tar file is now on the hard drive. Now I want to put it back onto
tape, gee, simple minded me thought
tar -cv ./thefile.tar -C /usr/thedirectorystore
and bingo, but that doesn't seems to be happening. Any ideas on how I can
complete this task?
Thanks again,
Anthony
>Close, but no cigar.
>
>syntax is:
>
>tar -cvf /dev/tapedevice /usr/thedirectory.
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>To make a full backup I did:
>
>tar -cvf /dev/st0 / --exclude /dev --exclude /proc
>
>(my tape drive is a scsi rdat on /dev/st0) This command backed up
>everything, except the dev and proc directories. (I had some BAD
>things happen trying to access the devices as files, and you don't
>need to backup the /proc directory as it does NOT exist on the disk.)
>Don't leave your cd rom mounted for this or it will get backed up
>also, why waste 650MB of tape for something that can't be trashed?!
>
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>Greetings,
> Got what I thought was a simple problem. I have a 2GB DAT tape
>drive, a
>directory that I want to backup to that tape drive. Seems simple
>enough,
>but I can't seem to get it to work. I thought the command was:
>tar -cvf thetarfile.tar /usr/thedirectory
>
>But it isn't working. Now I have created a tar file on the hard drive,
>and
>thought it would be just as easy to move the file to tape, but I can't
>figure that out either. Tried mounting the tape drive and the machine
>mocks me openly. Any and all help would be apprciated!
>
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