On 30 Jun 2006 at 14:41, Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:

> This is not specifically related to bacula, but I am wondering how to go 
> about tarring a directory/filesystem onto a tape, and then ship the tape 
> to someone else who has a similar lto drive, and then they can copy the 
> data directly off the lto tape.
> 
> This would kind of acheive the same thing as using a hard drive to copy 
> the data and ship it off, but I need to be able to do it with lto tape ?

Assuming you both have tar etc, and that your tape drive is /dev/sa0:

   tar -cf /dev/sa0 /path/to/files/backedup

To extract:

   tar -xf /dev/sa0

(files will be dropped into your current working directory complete 
with the pathname specified above).



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