Re: tar question from newbie

2002-06-17 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 19:23, Abner Gershon wrote: > This is very frustrating. I have 3 Linux books that I > have consulted as well as the man page and I can't > figure out how to use tar to back up my /home > directory from where it resides on /dev/hdd to my > other hard drive /dev/hdb7. Other p

Re: tar question from newbie

2002-06-17 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Abner Gershon wrote: > This is very frustrating. I have 3 Linux books that I have consulted > as well as the man page and I can't figure out how to use tar to back > up my /home directory from where it resides on /dev/hdd to my other > hard drive /dev/hdb7. > > I accidentaly

Re: tar question from newbie

2002-06-17 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Abner Gershon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020618 12:23]: > Anyway I change to my home directory, "cd /home". Then > type "tar -cf /mnt/abner" (I previously mounted > /dev/hdb7 to /mnt) The argumen tafter the f needs to be the distination file. eg. tar -cf /mnt/abner.tar abner

Re: tar question from newbie

2002-06-17 Thread Chris Kenrick
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 07:23:00PM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: > This is very frustrating. I have 3 Linux books that I > have consulted as well as the man page and I can't > figure out how to use tar to back up my /home > directory from where it resides on /dev/hdd to my > other hard drive /dev/hdb