On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 08:31:20AM -0600, Anthony Landreneau wrote:
> 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
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Anthony Landreneau wrote:
> 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 w
---Anthony Landreneau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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.
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 t
On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 05:34:44AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> 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 co
# tar -cvf /dev/rmt/0m /usr/web/1801/tape/stddb981016.tar
tar: couldn't get uname for uid 100
tar: couldn't get gname for gid 204
a /usr/web/1801/tape/stddb981016.tar 440280 blocks
and it isn't writing anything to tape. Got any ideas?
Anthony
>*- Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
*- Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan wrote about "Re: tar and the braindead man"
| On Sun, 25 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|
| > You can't mount a tape. You need to write directly to the tape.
| > Otherwise how could you do a full backup of your largest partition if
| &
On Sun, 25 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> You can't mount a tape. You need to write directly to the tape.
> Otherwise how could you do a full backup of your largest partition if
> it was over 50% full?
>
> Do this instead:
>
> tar -cvf /dev/st0 /usr/thedirectory
>
> where /dev/st0 is the
*- Anthony Landreneau wrote about "tar and the braindead man"
| 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:
| t
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