From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 27 1:10:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lorica.ucc.usyd.edu.au (lorica.ucc.usyd.edu.au [129.78.64.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F4B537B401 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 01:09:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from student.usyd.edu.au (int-243.stjohns.usyd.edu.au [172.16.60.243]) by lorica.ucc.usyd.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA10560; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 18:09:39 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <3D1AC807.5060102@student.usyd.edu.au> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 18:08:39 +1000 From: J Lachlan Kanaley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: arvids Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to configure tar? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-4; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG try 'man tar', but to get you started you need the -f flag to specify a file. eg. tar -xvf You can add the -z flag to make it uncompress at the same time. You could also try 'zcat | tar -xvf -' which should do the same thing. - lachlan 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? > > I tried also gunzip backup.tar.gz > but then it comes back with an error > > Can you help me? > > Thank you in advance > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message