From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 12 5:27:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout06.sul.t-online.de (mailout06.sul.t-online.de [194.25.134.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B59637B8C4 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 05:27:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Meerwaldt@t-online.de) Received: from fwd02.sul.t-online.de by mailout06.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 12fMF5-0001fr-03; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 14:27:35 +0200 Received: from server.wes.mee.com (320044045192-0001@[193.158.179.89]) by fwd02.sul.t-online.de with esmtp id 12fMF0-0Jrv6XC; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 14:27:30 +0200 Received: from server.wes.mee.com (server.wes.mee.com [192.168.1.1]) by server.wes.mee.com (8.9.3/FreeBSD V4.0) with ESMTP id OAA01360; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 14:15:00 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 14:15:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Meerwaldt@t-online.de (Frederik Meerwaldt) To: Rasmus Skaarup Cc: Frederik Meerwaldt , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More files on one tape. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: 320044045192-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks a LOT!!! I just looked at the Manpages, and I found out, that I can extract single files, too. Thanks again -- Best regards, Freddy Homepage: fmeerwaldt.homepage.com Last update: 11.03.2000 Very good OpenVMS HowTo's, DHCPD Howto, VXT2k NetBooting HowTo, and a little bit about me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NetBSD Vax, Alpha, i386. Tru64 Unix, OpenVMS, FreeBSD, Ultrix. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Rasmus Skaarup wrote: > On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Frederik Meerwaldt wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > how can I write more files to a tape, or create a filesystem on it? > > The way I do it for now is just: > > > > cat myfilename.tgz > /dev/rsa0 > > > > Is there a way I can copy files to a tape and handle the tape as a normal > > HDD? mount, copy.... You know > > tar cvf /dev/rsa0 all the files you want on the tape seperated by a space > > tar xvf /dev/rsa0 > > Will expand the files on the tape from /dev/rsa0. > > 'tar' means Tape Archiver, or something.. 'man tar'. :-) > > > Best regards > Rasmus > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message