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To: "Peter Ranger" <grievous@powerup.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Tar 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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>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.

   Assuming that your tape drive is called "/dev/rst0" (which it would be if
it were SCSI), then you would do something like:

tar cf /dev/rst0 dir

...where 'dir' is a subdirectory of your current directory.
   If you want to see the files printed that are being archived, then make it
"tar cvf /dev/rst0 dir" (add the 'v' flag).

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com
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