[ale] tar restore help
Gary Maltzen
maltzen at mm.com
Wed Jun 23 15:19:45 EDT 1999
When you use
tar xvf /dev/st0 /
you are telling tar to extract *only* "/". If you do a
tar tvf /dev/st0
you will notice that tar has 'relativized' file names so that
/bin/rm -becomes- ./bin/rm -or- bin/rm
thus there is no "/" in the archive. To extract the entire archive into "/",
use
cd / ; tar xvf /dev/st0
-----Original Message-----
I have a SCSI tape drive (/dev/st0) onto which I can archive all my
files by using tar cvf /dev/st0 /
I can list the tape's contents with tar tvf /dev/st0 and can monitor the
drive's status with mt -f /dev/st0 status
However when I try to extract (restore) the files with tar xvf /dev/st0
/ the tape runs and runs finally telling me that
tar: / Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Am I naming the archive correctly? I tried using '/home/myname' instead
of '/' Still didn't work.
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