[newbie] Tar'ing - I'm confused

2002-11-06 Thread Ken Walker
I tried to Tar to dat from a smbmount and use the following, tar cvf /dev/nst0 *.* It stopped after about 400mb Tried it again and it did the same, so i tar'd to the hd such as tar cvf /usr/Cad12/tartest *.* and it did the same thing, stopped at about 400mb. It tar'd one folder and the loose

RE: [newbie] Tar'ing - I'm confused

2002-11-06 Thread Richard Urwin
] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Ken Walker Sent: 06 November 2002 13:55 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] Tar'ing - I'm confused I tried to Tar to dat from a smbmount and use the following, tar cvf /dev/nst0 *.* It stopped after about 400mb Tried it again and it did

Re: [newbie] Tar'ing - I'm confused

2002-11-06 Thread Miark
What happens if you do tar cvf /dev/nst0 *.* ? Miark On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 13:54:51 - Ken Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to Tar to dat from a smbmount and use the following, tar cvf /dev/nst0 *.* It stopped after about 400mb Want to buy your Pack or Services from

RE: [newbie] Tar'ing - I'm confused

2002-11-06 Thread Ken Walker
: RE: [newbie] Tar'ing - I'm confused You're showing your roots. *.* is a MS pattern. The corrosponding Unix pattern is * I guess that tar backed-up everything with a dot in it? -- Richard Urwin, Private No 9000 series computer has ever made a mitsake or corrubiteddatatato. -Original