--On Wednesday, September 25, 2002 21:38:55 +1000 Gordon Cormack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
