hi ya eagle
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Ralph Eagle wrote:
> > and/or when writing ..
> > find /home/kbmosas | buffer | tar cvf /dev/st0
>
> Hmmm, can not seem to get the above command to work. Produces the following
> error:
> tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive
> Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information.
welll.. what does the message say ??
- moreimportantly, do NOT type commands and hints people
post in the list w/o knowing what it will do
- i assume you know to add the right options to find
- i assume you know to go find the program called buffer
- i assume you know the options for tar to read from stdin
( does "tar cvf /dev/std0 -" help ?? or
( even "tar cvf /dev/std0 -T -" or
( lots of other permutations
yeah.. yeah about "assume" ...
> Looked at the buffer man page and tried several permutations of your command
> but could not get it to work. Besides it looks like buffer will only help
> writing the data to the tape... The problem I have is reading the data back
> off the tape.
if its written wrong ... it will barf at reading
it's written wrong if you do NOT hear a constant whine of the tape
vs the stop/rewind/start noises
> When I create the tar archive using: tar cvf /dev/st0
> /usr/kbmosas there are no errors reported by tar. The problem is trying to
> read the data back from the archive just made.
of course not... and do you know why not ..
and that doesnt solve the problem of maybe the data is nto written
as you expected due to other problems
- what kind of tape noises does it make when its writing
and it should be a nice and steady/constant whine ...
c ya
alvin
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