On Wed, 29 May 2002, GIC MLs wrote:
> I followed your advice and ran the command with the -tvf - flags, which
> seemed to only give me a listing of directories.:
Tar stores all the directories first, so if you are impatient,
you might not wait around until the files start showing up :)
Nick
Thanks very much for the help...
> First make a scratch directory like this:
> mkdir /var/tmp/testing/
> Then, from inside that directory, run the same dd command, but
> with "gtar -tvf -" so you can see exactly which files got into
> the archive. This also shows what the file names look like.
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 10:46:01PM -0400, Mitch Collinsworth wrote:
>
> On Wed, 29 May 2002, GIC MLs wrote:
>
> > # dd if=/dev/nrsa0 bs=32k skip=1 | /usr/local/bin/gtar -xf usr.dump
> >
> > ... but I get:
> >
> > /usr/local/bin/gtar: usr.dump: Cannot open: (null)
> > /usr/local/bin/gtar: Error i
On Wed, 29 May 2002, GIC MLs wrote:
> Now my problem is this...
>
> # dd if=/dev/nrsa0 bs=32k skip=1 | /usr/local/bin/gtar -xf - usr.dump
First make a scratch directory like this:
mkdir /var/tmp/testing/
Then, from inside that directory, run the same dd command, but
with "gtar -tvf -" so you
> Yeah, it's right here in the SYNOPSIS section of the man page:
>
> SYNOPSIS
>tar [ - ] A --catenate --concatenate | c --create | d
> Ok, see it now? (Neither do I :-)
:-)))
> But you need a - after the -xf,
> otherwise tar is trying to read its input from usr.dump, which it ca
On Wed, 29 May 2002, GIC MLs wrote:
> # dd if=/dev/nrsa0 bs=32k skip=1 | /usr/local/bin/gtar -xf usr.dump
>
> ... but I get:
>
> /usr/local/bin/gtar: usr.dump: Cannot open: (null)
> /usr/local/bin/gtar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>
> What am I doing wrong here? Am I using the gtar com
Hi,
Ok, so I have finally got Amanda to write a partition to tape.
Now I want to grab a file off of the tape.
I'm using Amanda-2.4.2p2 on FreeBSD.
After a successful amcheck and amdump, I run
# mt rewind
# mt fsf 001
to position the tape at the beginning of where I wrote daily001.
I'm followi
