Author: "Byarlay, Wayne A." <wab AT purdue DOT edu>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:55:35 -0500
Hi. I just want to extract * from a tar'ed tape archive to '.' (current directory on the backup server). I've done it before and it worked OK. Maybe I wrote something down wrong from before. All I ge
Author: "Yeates, Stephen [Heanet]" <stephen.yeates AT heanet DOT ie>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 17:40:25 +0100
Hi Wayne, I'm new to this group but in my experience you need to specify the directory name to extract for tar So if you want everything relative to server <pathname> you would specify /usr/sbin/amre
Just an observation: 1. Tar will happily extract the entire contents of the archive if you don't specify files or sets of files to extract. So: tar xvf - says extract all files from archive that is i
Author: "Byarlay, Wayne A." <wab AT purdue DOT edu>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 12:34:56 -0500
AHA! It was a permissions thing, as far as the actual extraction. However, it appears as though I'm not out of the woods yet... the untarring process only get yea far before bombing out with the 2nd
Author: "Byarlay, Wayne A." <wab AT purdue DOT edu>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 13:40:31 -0500
Hmm. Well, I looked closer (by piping through more) at the output more; and there's some "permission denied's" that I'm not especially too worried about. Also, the /dev was not ignored when backing u