On Wednesday 03 July 2002 01:43 pm, you wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: > > >ok...now you've really got my curiosity peeked. once you get the files > > >"on" the tape, how in the world does one browse, find, and then get the > > >file(s) off the tape? I've never done this before, but am truely > > > facinated by this. > > > > Simple. > > If you put 'em on there with "tar", take 'em off with "tar". > > To get a listing of them: > > > > tar -tvf /dev/st0 > tape_list.tar (would output the contents to a file) > > Want one off? > > tar -xvf /dev/st0 <path/filename> > > > > Want to get really trick, you can compress the files when you write them > > to tape with tar: > > > > tar -czvf /dev/st0 <files to be backed up> > > > > To get those off: > > > > tar -zxvf /dev/st0 <filespec> > > > > The "z" in tar will compress/uncompress them on the fly. There are far > > better utilities for doing backups than tar. But in a pinch, it works. > > Let's not forget that "tar" is short for "Tape ARchive" > > In fact, tar should by default use whatever your default tape drive is. > > (works that way on AIX, Solaris, & HP-UX anyway)> You just type: tar -xv > > <files to back up> If you leave off the "f", it defaults to the first > > tape drive. The "f" flag is actually to designate a "f"ile name for the > > archive other than tape. I haven't tried this on Linux. Maybe I'll check > > mine when I get home.. ;) > > > > Have fun! > > > > Ric > > > > Now the fun part: This is like a lottery: Will this actually post or not. > > I haven't had any luck lately. I've almost given up trying. > > Ric, > > thank you SO much for that awesome information. I can now see what is on > the tape now by writing the contents to a file. however when I attempt to > extract a specific file from the tape is tells me that the listed file is > not found in the archive. > > ======error message======= > [root@tapeserv root]# tar -xvf /dev/st0 /home/mdw1982/.mc/ini > tar: /home/mdw1982/.mc/ini: Not found in archive > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > ====== end error message ======= > > what is it trying to tell me? that you have a puncuation problem? try tar -xvf /dev/st0/home/mdw1982/.mc/ini home/mdw1982/.mc/ini heck I Know squat about tar... I bet I am way wrong
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