Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 11:39:14 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: "Peter Ranger" <grievous@powerup.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tar Message-ID: <200009111839.LAA09290@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Sep 2000 17:01:44 %2B1000." <000801c01bbe$25e0ce80$0201010a@poida>
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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 Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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