Ok Kenneth, I must be missing something here, other than my mind of course. This is the requirment: I have a tape with a tar file on it, lets call it thefile.tar . I need to make two copies of that file, back on two other tapes. So I will have three tapes with three identical copies of this tar file. I got thefile.tar off of the original tape using
tar -xv ./thefile.tar -C /usr/thedirectorystore The tar file is now on the hard drive. Now I want to put it back onto tape, gee, simple minded me thought tar -cv ./thefile.tar -C /usr/thedirectorystore and bingo, but that doesn't seems to be happening. Any ideas on how I can complete this task? Thanks again, Anthony >Close, but no cigar. > >syntax is: > >tar -cvf /dev/tapedevice /usr/thedirectory. > >To make a full backup I did: > >tar -cvf /dev/st0 / --exclude /dev --exclude /proc > >(my tape drive is a scsi rdat on /dev/st0) This command backed up >everything, except the dev and proc directories. (I had some BAD >things happen trying to access the devices as files, and you don't >need to backup the /proc directory as it does NOT exist on the disk.) >Don't leave your cd rom mounted for this or it will get backed up >also, why waste 650MB of tape for something that can't be trashed?! > > >----------------------------------------------------- >Greetings, > Got what I thought was a simple problem. I have a 2GB DAT tape >drive, a >directory that I want to backup to that tape drive. Seems simple >enough, >but I can't seem to get it to work. I thought the command was: >tar -cvf thetarfile.tar /usr/thedirectory > >But it isn't working. Now I have created a tar file on the hard drive, >and >thought it would be just as easy to move the file to tape, but I can't >figure that out either. Tried mounting the tape drive and the machine >mocks me openly. Any and all help would be apprciated! > > > > > > >_________________________________________________________ >DO YOU YAHOO!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
