[SunHELP] Tar command

[Thomas.Cameron at CameronTech.com]

Maybe try:

tar xvf /dev/rmt/0 -C newdirectory

Also, take a look at 
http://docs.sun.com/ab2/coll.40.6/REFMAN1/%40Ab2PageView/368129?Ab2Lang=C&Ab2Enc=iso-8859-1

HTH,
Thomas

Zakaria A. Mattar wrote:

> I have a backup tape, and I am trying to restore this backup tape into a
> directory under the opt partition but when I issue this command:
> tar xvf /dev/rmt/0 ./newdirectory
> It seems that its doing the restore then after long time it came back
> without any message but it didn't do anything.
> Can you please help me.
> 
> Zakaria A. Mattar
> Advanced Telecom Co.
> Operation Engineer
> Tel:   +966 1 4601877/114
> Fax:   +966 1 4601988
> Email: zmattar at atc.com.sa
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