On Monday 30 September 2002 19:39, Ray Olszewski wrote: > 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.
A good suggestion Ray, but what beats me is the "askers" signature, Quote; " Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company 216.267.5775 Voice 216-267-6176 Fax www.pelsupply.com " Network Admin ????? and he needs to ask this.!!!! Several mails a day and if i may say so most of the questions are solvable with a simple reading of the manuals. One would think, if one is a Network Administrator, then he/she would know about simple things which are asked here. Well i suppose someone will do his work for him then, at least he is getting paid for the answers he gets here, note, but not from me, i have to earn my money. > > > -- > -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the > odds!"-------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo > Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >---- -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
