At 03:21 PM 9/30/02 -0400, Paul Kraus wrote:
>Is there a way to have an index written? I am making 13gb backups and it
>takes forever to simply restore because it has to read each and every
>single file on the tape. This is actually on my sco box but the question
>is relevant because I plan on moving the file server to a red hat
>machine.
Do you mean that you want to use tar to make a tape backup, and at the same
time write a separate file that contains a list of all of the files on the
tape?
If you do mean that ... then just run tar in verbose mode and redirect the
output to a file. Something like this (though this example saves to a .tar
file rather than tape):
tar -cvf somename.tar filespec > index.txt
If you mean something more specific by "index", please describe in more
detail what you need.
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