A possible solution, if you have the resources, is to use a linux box
to mount the netware FS, and tar it, placing the tar'd file on an ext2
FS.
If that works (or seems to), make sure you can untar it.
Another idea; see if your Novell server can run an ftp daemon (I'm
pretty sure there's some out there). Transfer the files manually over.
This solution could be ugly, since some ftp's don't play well with sub
directories (though that could be client dependent; some clients seem
to).
Finally, instead of taring the files, see about zipping them. I know
that winzip will work with tar files, maybe tar will work with zip
files. In any case, if you zip them, you at least have saved the files
in a well recognized standard, giving you the chance to unzip them to a
windows FS (FAT, NTFS, whatever). You can mount those with linux and
see if you can play with tar later.
Personally, if you're planning on placing the files on another windows
file system, I'd just use zip and forget about tar altogether.
=== Al
--- Dan Horth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi - off topic (except that I'm trying to archive a netware file
> server before setting it up as a RH 6.2 server!) but I was hoping
> that someone could help me with how I can crate a tar archive on a
> Novell Netware server. Ideally I'd like to be able to write the tar
> straight to DAT.
>
> I know that the server has some kind of tar functionality - as I get
> some response referring to tar.nlm when I type tar at the system
> console.
>
> problem is I don't know how to tell tar what to compress and where to
> compress it to... any help or pointers in the right direction would
> be exciting.
>
> tia. dan.
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