--On Wednesday, September 25, 2002 21:38:55 +1000 Gordon Cormack <gcormack AT 
powerserve.com DOT au> wrote:

Hi Peoples,

I'm trying to dump from an Amanda tape onto the hard-drive by not using
Amanda. This is probably a "you don't know how to use tar properly"
question but:

I'm obviously doing something wrong here cause the command:
        #dd if=/dev/rmt/0n bs=32k skip=1 | /usr/local/bin/tar -cv -f
/export/output.tar
        /usr/local/bin/tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive

The 'c' option to tar means 'create'.  You need to extract so use 'x'
instead.

Frank

The tape only has about 2GB of compressed data on it so it's not huge...


Any ideas?

Thanks,
Gordon.

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