Help with tar

[mranderson22]

Hi everyone,

I am restoring a tar file from tape which is massive it gets to a certain file then runs out of space as below

tar xvf /dev/rmt/0

It get to this file below

./data/fhfiles/fhactmas.dat

Is it possible to then run the extract again from this file to the end???

A quick response would be great thanks for the help.

 

[Clairvoyant1332]

You'll want to use the exclude file option for tar. First create a file (/tmp/excludefile, for example) with the names of the files you don't want to extract. Then call tar as follows:

tar xvfX /dev/rmt/0 /tmp/excludefile