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[Guest_imported]

When someone wants to tar a job and then put it on a tape what does this involve?


What are the complete commands to do this?? Does it involve gzip command also??

Is this a completed tar of a job??
[tt]tar xf jobid.tar[/tt]

 

[MikeLacey]

hi greg,

The command you show above is actually the tar command to extract data from a tar archive
x extract
f from this file

To create a tar archive of all the files in the directory /home/mike you might use this command

tar cf mikes.tar /home/mike/*

You would then copy the mike.tar file to the tape drive, what the tape drive is called on your system will vary.

You can create a tar archive directly on the tape drive, to do this you will need to know the device name of the tape drive, let's assume it's /dev/rmt0

tar cf /dev/rmt0 /home/mike/*

Does this help you?
Mike
"Experience is the comb that Nature gives us after we are bald."

Is that a haiku?
I never could get the hang
of writing those things.

 

[Guest_imported]

What is the gzip used for? Is it used to compress the file?

Also what would be the other ways to tar to?

Floppy would be what?
just /floppy/floppy 0

What other devices could I use?

 

[pcunix]

Why don't you read

man tar

?

Tar doesn't care what it writes to. You can tar cvf /dev/lp for all it cares (your printer might not like it though). Tony Lawrence
SCO Unix/Linux Resources

http://pcunix.com

tony@pcunix.com

 

[MikeLacey]

Greg,

Yes - gzip is a compression/decompression tool. You don't need it to create tar archives - though if you create a tar archive and compress it using gzip it will take up a lot less space. Mike
"Experience is the comb that Nature gives us after we are bald."

Is that a haiku?
I never could get the hang
of writing those things.

 

[Guest_imported]

Okay now I understand it better. Thank you Mike