Thanks to ya Jamie and Michael. I'm extracting the list now... It's going to take a while though, think I'll let it run overnight (time to head home right now). I knew I was missing something simple, but couldn't see it - even when looking at "man tar".
Shawn -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Petch Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 4:43 PM To: CLUG General Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Help with extracting a file from a tar I believe that with tar you need to specify that you wish to read the data from a file (rather than standard input). Maybe try: tar tf filename.tar On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 16:23, Shawn Grover wrote: > Hi gang. > > We have some files backed up in a .tar file, and I need to recover one of them. > Unfortunately, I do not know the exact path/filename of the required file. So, I > tried something like "tar -t tarfile.tar" to get a listing of the contents, with no > luck. I'm sure I'm missing an option there though. The tar file in question is > approx 11 GB in size, and the drive it is sitting on only has 4 GB free - So I can't > just untar the entire file. Any tips or suggestions here? Thanks. > > (one of our windows servers cratered over the weekend, but it isn't that critical. > However we do have some databases on it that are used periodically - I need to > recover one of the databases and get it set up on a different server. We have a > Linux box using Samba to backup files on the network in tar files.) > > Shawn > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca -- Mike Petch CApp::Sysware Consulting Ltd. Suite 1002,1140-15th Ave SW. Calgary, Alberta, Canada. T2R 1K6. (403)804-5700. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
