Greetings- I'm not sure if I'm going to find anyone who has tried this, but I hope someone may have a pointer as to what may be going on.
I'm trying to back up data to a tape drive attached to a Windows 2012 server. When I attempt to do this with the version of tar supplied in unxutils, I get this error: C:\temp>tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.12 Copyright (C) 1988, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason. C:\temp>tar cvf \\.\Tape0 . tar: Cannot open \\.\Tape0: Invalid argument tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now As an experiment, the tar in Cygwin does actually work: $ tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.26 Packaged by Cygwin (1.26-1) Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason. administrator@rackable ~ $ tar cvf /dev/st0 /cygdrive/c/temp tar: Removing leading `/' from member names /cygdrive/c/temp/ . In the past, long ago, I did use the "native" tar, and it worked. I've done quite a bit of searching and haven't come up with another option thus far. If anyone has any pointers, I'd appreciate it. Thanks! -Mike
