Re: tar help

[Thomas Wegner <thomas_wegner@gmx.net>]

Hallo Karsten! Am Mit, 06 Dez 2000 schrieb kmself@ix.netcom.com:

> > 2) forward the band to the second archive (mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf)
> > 3) tar -xvf /dev/nst0 path/of/the/files/*
>                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> This is your problem.
> 
> You're also not going to get a restore quite as you want it, I suspect.
> 
> First issue:  you need to supply a list of files to your restore
> command, something like:
> 
>    tar xvf /dev/nst0 mypath/myfile1 mypath/myfile2 mypath/myfile3
> 
> You're essentially asking for files which don't exist -- there isn't a
> file "path/of/the/files/*" -- with a literal '*' (tar doesn't do
> wildcard expansion on its own archive).
Thank you for yout tip. I'm surprised about the solution is a little bit
complicated.  :-((
 
Ciao.....Thomas
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