Originally to: Ray Olszewski
RO> "all" information? Hardly.
H...
RO> Neither "man tar" nor "tar --help" gave *me* enough information to be
RO> able to answer his original question (though it did point me to the
RO> -M option, which I suggested trying),
If his version of Tar hadn't have
Hello Gents , One word , df . Hth , JimL
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> dashielljt wrote:
> > I've never tried this and have never heard of
> > any success with this idea either.
> I do not see the problem. It is easy to create a
> compressed archive file (let's call i
Wrong, the extract command in the second part would have to be tar xvf not
tar cvf.
Jude
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You're not asking any developer of tar that question, and I haven't
studied the program's source code so can't answer your questionn.
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>> As it stands, it's possible to backup to multiple floppy
>> disks with tar, but these cannot be compressed during the
>> archival process.
>Why not use tar twice: first with -zcf to make a compressed
>archive and then with --multi-volume to write the archive
>to floppy. Of course to retri
dashielljt wrote:
>
> I've never tried this and have never heard of
> any success with this idea either.
I do not see the problem. It is easy to create a
compressed archive file (let's call it backup.tgz).
Tar happily tars a single file, so why can't it
tar backup.tgz (multi-volume)?
Chee
I wouldn't try that in that way, but the basic idea might work. I say
might because I've never tried this and have never heard of any success
with this idea either. One might do something like: tar czf * | tar cmvf
- /dev/fdd0/backup.tar.gz. This pipes the compressed result into a
multivolume me
Jerry James Haumberger wrote:
>
> As it stands, it's possible to backup to multiple floppy
> disks with tar, but these cannot be compressed during the
> archival process.
Why not use tar twice: first with -zcf to make a compressed
archive and then with --multi-volume to write the archive
to
>> One of these commands..
>>
>> # man tar
>> # info tar
>> # tar --help
>>
>>..will give you all information you need about your tar version.
>"all" information? Hardly. Neither "man tar" nor "tar --help" gave *me*
>enough information to be able to answer his original question (though it
>di
Ray Olszewski wrote:
>
> my system (like many; it really has not caught on, despite
> pressure from the FSF crowd) does not even have the "info"
> system installed. (Does BasicLinux install it?)
No, BasicLinux does not have info (although it does have
some man pages). BasicLinux is designed fo
At 08:08 PM 12/7/02 +, Rolf Edlund wrote:
Originally to: Jerry James Haumberger
JH> The question remains: How can I back up -- with tar or any other
JH> Slackware 3.5 program -- my 9 MBs of files from the BasicLinux
JH> console with multiple floppies? And in compressed format?
One of t
Originally to: Jerry James Haumberger
JH> The question remains: How can I back up -- with tar or any other
JH> Slackware 3.5 program -- my 9 MBs of files from the BasicLinux
JH> console with multiple floppies? And in compressed format?
One of these commands..
# man tar
# info tar
# tar
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Chuck Gelm wrote:
> I did
>
> tar -cyvf /boot /dev/fd0
> and
> /mnt# tar -xyvf /dev/fd0
> and it created
> /mnt/boot/
> and all the files from /boot appeared in /mnt/boot
Yes, it will do that. cd to where you want the files restored to first,
or use -C:
tar -C / -xyvf /d
I did
tar -cyvf /boot /dev/fd0
and
/mnt# tar -xyvf /dev/fd0
and it created
/mnt/boot/
and all the files from /boot appeared in /mnt/boot
Next I tried
tar -cvMf /dev/fd0 /etc
and after some floppy action, I was prompted:
"Prepare volume #2 for /dev/fd0 and hit return:"
I'd recommend runn
Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
>
> Compressed you are not going to accomplish easily .
> Maybe someone else can address a method of compressing
> the input INLINE with the multi-volume archive issue .
Couldn't this simply be done by using tar twice: first
tar with -zcf and then tar the result m
Jerry James Haumberger wrote:
>
> The question remains: How can I back up -- with tar or
> any other Slackware 3.5 program -- my 9 MBs of files from
> the BasicLinux console with multiple floppies? And in
> compressed format?
It would be possible to create a compressed archive and
then spli
Hi, Jerry:
What version of 'tar' do you have?
tar --version
Please show us your exact command line
and the exact error message(s).
I am guessing that your command line should be:
tar -cyvMf /dev/fd0 /directory_to_be_backed_up
...
tar -xyvMf /dev/fd0
?
'y'=bz2 compression, 'z'=gzip comp
Hello Jerry & all ,
If it is Slackware the tar binary provided is Gnu-Tar .
Try doing a 'tar --help' & report the output from
'tar --version' . There maybe issues with certain versions
of tar . Another item to look at is can you read floppies on
yo
Hello everyone --
Thank you for offering me various suggestions on how to possibly
get tar to make a backup archive on multiple floppies. Sorry to
say, none of the suggestions worked.
The only result was that tar would make an archive in whatever
directory I happened to be in when creating the a
Take the b option out of there completely I think. Blocks are used for
tapes but not normally disk devices such as floppy disks.
Jude
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Chuck Gelm wrote:
> Howdy, dashielljt:
>
> I was thinking along the same lines. I am only familiar
> with the last option being 'f'. Yet
Chuck, you're right on target about how the agruments that get parameters
get them. Skipping the problematic "k" part for the moment, a command like
tar cvfb somefilename.tar 40 some_files_to_tar_up
would work just fine, putting whatever matched some_files_to_tar_up in
somefilename.tar
Howdy, dashielljt:
I was thinking along the same lines. I am only familiar
with the last option being 'f'. Yet I noticed that the 'b'
command needs an operator too. Perhaps the operators are
appended in the same order they are requested by the options.
'f' filename.ext or /dev/*
'b' block size
Whoever got that manual should be given a full refund by slackware if it
is as you say. The f in that command string has to precede a device name
and file path.
Jude
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Jerry James Haumberger wrote:
> Hello everyone --
>
> An old Slackware 3.0 manual suggests the following com
maybe tar cvbkf /dev ... will work.
Jude
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Jerry James Haumberger wrote:
> Hello everyone --
>
> An old Slackware 3.0 manual suggests the following command with
> tar for a full backup onto 3.5" floppy disks:
>
> tar cvfbk /dev/fd0 1440 4 /
>
> I've read that the "k" option is
Hello everyone --
An old Slackware 3.0 manual suggests the following command with
tar for a full backup onto 3.5" floppy disks:
tar cvfbk /dev/fd0 1440 4 /
I've read that the "k" option is supposed to cause tar to prompt
for adding multiple disks as the archive exceeds the size of each
floppy di
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