Sony Tape Drive
Josef Karthauser
joe at pavilion.net
Mon Aug 16 16:41:07 BST 1999
On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 04:18:02PM +0100, Wood, Richard wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steve Greenshaw [mailto:smg at steveg.u-net.com]
> > Sent: 16 August 1999 16:13
>
> > Hmm .. tried 'tar --extract fileone'
>
> >From my hazy recollections of tar, DAT units and HP-UX
>
> Try 'tar xvf /dev/st0', it should then extract the two files to disk.
At its simplest:
tar cv files_to_save # Save
tar cv # Restore
Tar defaults to the tape drive unless overridden with the -f flag.
Joe
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