Re: Using tar to run backups onto a tape device using cygwin

2012-10-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 19 00:39, srikant veeraraghavan wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > I was looking into the /dev and / folder... It has actually created > directories in the name of st0 and st1. For checking if anything was written Directories? That should have been plain files. > or not I checked it in the GUI. I

Re: Using tar to run backups onto a tape device using cygwin

2012-10-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 18 09:27, srikant veeraraghavan wrote: > Thanks Corinna, > > I actually read similar posts from you here wherein you have mentioned to > put the device names as st0 or nst0, depending on the type. > I tried even this: > tar -cf /dev/tape1 /cygdrive/c/StratfordData/30GB_Dataset/ Don't try

Re: Using tar to run backups onto a tape device using cygwin

2012-10-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 18 09:13, srikant veeraraghavan wrote: > Also, > I have tried using these... > tar -cf /dev/tape1 /cygdrive/c/StratfordData/30GB_Dataset/ > tar -cf /TAPE0 /cygdrive/c/StratfordData/30GB_Dataset/ > > Not sure which one is right as all of them do not report any errors! Sure they don't. The

Re: Using tar to run backups onto a tape device using cygwin

2012-10-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 18 07:45, srikant veeraraghavan wrote: > Hi, > > I have been trying to write few backups using the tar command onto a tape > drive which is zoned to my Windows server. > The Carts have been loaded on the tapes on which I need to run the backup. > I found the tape Symbolic name from the Devi

Re: Using tar to run backups onto a tape device using cygwin

2012-10-18 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/18/2012 08:45 AM, srikant veeraraghavan wrote: > Hi, > > I have been trying to write few backups using the tar command onto a tape > drive which is zoned to my Windows server. > The Carts have been loaded on the tapes on which I need to run the backup. > I found the tape Symbolic name from t

Re: Using tar to run backups onto a tape device using cygwin

2012-10-18 Thread marco atzeri
On 10/18/2012 4:45 PM, srikant veeraraghavan wrote: Hi, I have been trying to write few backups using the tar command onto a tape drive which is zoned to my Windows server. The Carts have been loaded on the tapes on which I need to run the backup. I found the tape Symbolic name from the Device m