[SunHELP] Tar extraction problems

[John Kennedy]

Tope,
Are you rewinding the tape before you try and restore the tar file?
mt -f /dev/rmt/0cbn rew
If the tape is not rewound then there is no tar file to restore.
Also, in looking at the command, It may be better to cd into the
/d2/oradata/SID1 dir then use the command:
tar -cvf /dev/rmt/0cbn  system01.dbf
This way if you want to restore to a different location you can (putting the
full path will restore the file to it's original location not the temp
location you are apparently looking for.
John Kennedy
PS - E-mail me off list...I want to know how your search is going...

Tope Songonuga wrote:

> Hi guys
> 
> I'm trying to back up some Oracle files using the tar command below:
> HOST tar -cvf /dev/rmt/0cbn /d2/oradata/SID1/system01.dbf
> 
> The script seems to run ok according to the log file which shows (for the
> file above):
> a /d2/oradata/SID1/system01.dbf 163848 tape blocks
> 
> When I read back the tape (tar -tf) it also looks ok.
> However, when I attempt to restore the same file to a temp location using
> tar -xvf /dev/rmt/0n filename, I get nothing back, just another $prompt
and
> the file is not extracted to the specified destination.
> 
> The same script works fine on another server (E450 running Solais 2.7),
and
> I can extract files ok as well, an example entry from the  log file is:
> Removing leading `/' from absolute path names in the archive
> u05/backup/rbs_02.dbf
> 
> Does anyone have an idea why the 'a' appears (in the log) in front of the
> file name being archived, instead of the above?
> 
> HELP!!!
> 
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