On Monday 30 September 2002 20:35, Paul Kraus wrote: > First of all I am not a UNIX or Linux admin. I had two servers dumped on > me and have been struggling for 2 weeks to get some of the more basic > shit down. Which is WHY I AM POSTING ON A NEWBIE LIST!Why the hell are > you attacking someone on a newbie list. I did read the man pages and I > had already read / learned about redirecting the output. If you had read > my next message you would have seen that. I am asking if there was a > work around for a serious limitation of tape backups using the standard > unix/linux tar application. Perhaps you where just trying to impress > people on the list. That's the problem with 99% of news groups/ mailing > lists that have to do with Linux or Unix for that matter. Its like an > elitist club. Ask the wrong question and everyone is on your shit. By > the way no one has yet to solve this simple question that anyone should > have been able to answer by reading the man pages.
I have been here for the duratrion of this list. Most of the time you ask a question without asking what you really want, Ray has asked you before to try and explain what you want in more detail, you are getting beter at that, i was not being cheaky and i do not need to impress folks here nor do i need to do it on other list's whaere i answer mails. I did not use strong words in my mail and i did not mention your name, Paul, simply slow down and explain your situation more when asking questions, and you may want to readjust you sig, for this list at least. No i am not an ASS, if you want to call me that please do it on some or other newsgroup where that is normal practice, that is not how we work here. Thanks for your mail and have a nice day. > > PS > You're an ASS pa3gcu. My name is Richard, thanks.. > > -----Original Message----- > From: pa3gcu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 4:13 PM > To: Ray Olszewski; Paul Kraus; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Tar Backups > > 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
