Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:11:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Philippe CASIDY <pcasidy@casidy.com> To: arvids@blezurs.lv Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to configure tar? Message-ID: <200206270809.g5R893fm070837@gueway.home> In-Reply-To: <NBBBJNOMPKLOEJCLPKHFGEKBCHAA.arvids@blezurs.lv>
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On 27 Jun, arvids wrote: > Dear Sirs, > I just took an administration of FreeBSD based system from another admin. > There seems to be a problem. We have a script doing backups and compressing > the files in format backup.tar.gz > I cannot open the archive > I do: > tar -x backup.tar.gz > and it answers that /dev/sa0 is not configured. What to do? > tar works on tape devices by default. (/dev/sa0) To specify a tar file, use the -f option tar -xf <file> will do the trick. But first you will have to uncompress it first add the -z option then tar -xfz <file> then if you want it to be verbose, try -v tar -xvfz <file> man tar details these options Enjoy Phil. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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