From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 26 18:30:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A331416A407 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:30:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DED8543D86 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:30:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) id k8QIU6nm099371; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:30:06 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:30:06 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Bob Message-ID: <20060926183006.GB45831@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200609261352.38059.bob@tania.servebbs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200609261352.38059.bob@tania.servebbs.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tared by TAR X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:30:07 -0000 In the last episode (Sep 26), Bob said: > Please forgive me if this is all due to my newbie status. I HAVE > RTFM!, and that is essentially my problem. > > I use tar daily, to make a file-backup of /usr/home. I put a tape in > the dat (DDS3) drive before I go to bed, and in the morning put it > into the 30 day rotation box. > > I have recently moved from Linux, to FreeBSD. And pretty much copied > my scripts from the old Linux box to the new BSD one. A veritable joy > I might add! AThis is so much better!!! > > I went nuts, and got tar'ed and feathered with TAR. I have always > used tar with the -M option (--multi-volume) which allows you to span > more than one tape on a big ta archiver; but you won't find this -M > option in BSD's TAR! Nor will you find a proper man page, for BSD's > port of gtar (gnutar) which I THIINK is equivalent to Linux's tar. > > What I ended up doing is a BADF HACK! I copyiny my old linux tar.1.gz > manpage to gtar on my new system. > > HOWEVER, this man page from my old Linux system may, or may not not > be correct, given the fact that BSD giggers the makefile with it's > own patches for every "make install", and when you make gtar from > "/usr/ports/archivers/gtar" you do NOT get a manpage! BAD! BAD! BAD! > Bug??? The differences between bsdtar, and gnutar are quite IMMENSE! Hey, don't blame us! If you look at the extracted tar-1.15.1 directory, you'll note that they don't even /provide/ a manpage, so there's not much we can do here. :( You'll have to use the info docs, or do as you did and copy an older gnutar manpage from another system. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com