Subject: Re: Help with tar to tape?
bryan@ak.net
Date: Fri Sep 27 2002 - 16:26:52 AKDT
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 03:12:04PM -0700, Jim Dory <jdory@gci.net> wrote:
>
> For a test, here's what I did:
> tar cf /dev/tape /etc
>
> Then:
> tar df /dev/tape
>
> and the shell echoed what appears to be all the files but there was, for
> each file something like this:
>
> tar: etc/ptmp: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
The command to extract files from an archive is 'x', not 'd'.
According the the tar man page, 'd' (for "diff") compares the
files in the archive to the live filesystem.
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