From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 11 2: 8:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.idx.com.au (pop.idx.com.au [203.14.30.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8AE737B424 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 02:08:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebsd.freebsd.org (maxc97.idx.com.au [203.19.9.97]) by pop.idx.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA30470; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 20:08:08 +1100 From: Danny To: "Peter Ranger" , Subject: Re: Tar Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 06:17:25 +1100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: <000801c01bbe$25e0ce80$0201010a@poida> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00091206185000.00340@freebsd.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Try the following command to tar a directory Assuming the folder is called work try tar cvf work.tar work Do a man tar if you want to know how to use tar On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Peter Ranger wrote: > >%_hello, > I am a 16 year old student, and I am currently setting up a home network. I am trying to set up one of the computers for a backup machine. This machine has a tape drive in it. I was wondering how to use tar to back up entire folders and files to the tape drive. > I need to be able to back up one directory that contains numerous other directories containing files, could you please email me with the syntax on how to use tar for this purpose. > > Thank you > Peter Ranger > ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message