Subject: Re: Help with tar to tape?
From: Jim Dory (jdory@gci.net)
Date: Fri Sep 27 2002 - 16:06:20 AKDT
bryan@ak.net wrote:
>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.
>
>--
>Bryan Medsker
>bryan@ak.net
>
>
>
>
Oops, maybe I wasn't clear enough. I used tar df to compare or verify
the backup. Not to extract. Hence, when comparing, I was concerned about
the errors.
Cheers, JD
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