Hi all:
What are the differences between tar on tomsrtbt and gnutar? If I'm
reading the FAQ list correctly, the main one that I should notice is the
lack of a -z flag. From the FAQ list:
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tar and cpio are 'pax' and differ from gnu-tar and gnu-cpio.
Instead of:
tar -xvzf /dev/st0
Use this:
gzip -d < /dev/st0 | tar -xvf -
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When I restore a backup tar archive using the amanda system, tar doesn't
seem to understand the output. Under tomsrtbt, I get the following:
# tar -xvf hda1.0
Tar: blocksize = 20
tar: 07342473570/./: Unknown filetype
tar: 07342473570/./lost+found/: Unknown filetype
tar: 07342472621/./System.map: File exists
and so on. It manages to restore some of the files (apparently; I
haven't probed too deeply yet), but most of them get skipped for some
reason or another.
The archive was created by amanda using gnutar, if that helps.
John
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