[SunHELP] restoring from dds3 tape

[Peter Stokes]

Hi

The command you are entering will extract everything on the tape in
directory /export/home TO /export/home on your system, hence you will not
see anything in the local directory.

If you want to restore relative to where you are, you need to save the data
on tape relative as well e.g. if you want to save /export/home, you would

cd /export/home
tar cvf /dev/rmt0 .

Then to restore to say /my/directory

cd /my/directory
tar xvf /dev/rmt0 .

Peter
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-----Original Message-----
From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Swamy_CNN at satyam-infoway.com
Sent: 10 August 2001 09:36
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: [SunHELP] restoring from dds3 tape



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Hi all,
     I have dds3 tape in a dds3 tape drive. I'm able to read the contents
through "tar tvf ", but i'm not able to restore it to my hard disk. Infact
"tar
xvf " is not extracting anything, Following is an o/p that i got..
# ls
# tar xvf /dev/rmt/0 /export/home
# ls

thanks,
swamy



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