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Date:      Thu, 27 Jun 2002 18:08:39 +1000
From:      J Lachlan Kanaley <kanaley@student.usyd.edu.au>
To:        arvids <arvids@blezurs.lv>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how to configure tar?
Message-ID:  <3D1AC807.5060102@student.usyd.edu.au>
References:  <NBBBJNOMPKLOEJCLPKHFGEKBCHAA.arvids@blezurs.lv>

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try 'man tar', but to get you started you need the -f flag to specify a 
file.  eg.  tar -xvf <file>

You can add the -z flag to make it uncompress at the same time.

You could also try 'zcat <file> | tar -xvf -' which should do the same 
thing.

- lachlan

arvids wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
> I just took an administration of FreeBSD based system from another admin.
> There seems to be a problem. We have a script doing backups and compressing
> the files in format backup.tar.gz
> I cannot open the archive
> I do:
> tar -x backup.tar.gz
> and it answers that /dev/sa0 is not configured. What to do?
> 
> I tried also gunzip backup.tar.gz
> but then it comes back with an error
> 
> Can you help me?
> 
> Thank you in advance
> 
> 
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