Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 17:02:27 -0600 From: Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: How to restore from a tape using tar? Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000302165738.00ac3b90@mail.utexas.edu>
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I have a computer running FreeBSD 3.4 with a scsi hard drive, cd and tape drive. I recently attempted to run a backup of the system with the command: tar -cvf /dev/st0 / which should've backed up the entire system. I was able to run: tar -tf /dev/st0 > /FullBackupTOC.txt and successfully created a table of contents for the tape. I now want to test whether I can properly restore files from this tape but I want to restore them to a different location than they were (so that I don't accidentally erase anything). I'm not sure what the syntax for tar would be to accomplish this. Any suggestions/ideas? Thanks, Oscar "Don't believe the hype" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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