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From: tdwyer@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au (Terry Dwyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Using tar with wangdat 3100
Date: 28 May 1995 15:18:17 +0800
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Geordan Rosario (geordan@OCF.Berkeley.EDU) wrote:
: I'm having problems using tar with a WangDAT 3100 SCSI tape drive. As far as I
: know it is at /dev/rst0. Are there any known incompatibilities with this
: drive? It seems like I can tar to the tape, but if I `tar -t' nothing shows
: up. I use `tar -c -v -f /dev/rst0', and all the files are displayed, and I
: assume that they're going _somewhere_. I just can't get a listing, or extract
: files from the tar.
set your TAPE environment variable like this:
export TAPE=/dev/nrst0 #no rewind on close device
For multiple tar operations on the same tape, or
export TAPE=/dev/rst0 #rewind on close.
If you do this in your .profile it will be set each time you log in.
Now you don't have to specify a device on the command line.
Using tar -c -v -f indicates you want to save to a file not a device.
The `-f' switch is usually used like this
tar cvf target.file.tar [directory | filemask | file]
What you want to do is this:
cd /
tar cv *
Hope this helps
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