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Re: How to use the tar command for tape drive
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Nabhonil Sinha <nasinha at cisco dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com, cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 12:57:16 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: How to use the tar command for tape drive
- References: <001101c43cf6$8dc13f50$82154d0a@apac.cisco.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 18 May 2004, Nabhonil Sinha wrote:
> hi,
>
> I have a tape drive installed in my windows 2000 system. How can i create
> archive on tape. With the latest cygwin installed, I am able to list the
> contents of the tape using the command "tar -tvf //./tape0" however I am
> unable to create archive on tape using the command "tar -cvf //./tape0
> C:\BackupFolder". The error i am getting is as follows:-
>
> tar: //./tape0: Cannot open: Invalid argument
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>
> Can somebody help me in it?
a) This has nothing to do with X, so cygwin-xfree is the wrong list for
it. Redirecting to the correct list (<cygwin at cygwin dot com>).
b) Read <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN806>
*fully* -- the answer to your question is there. If it's still not
clear, see <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg01583.html>.
Igor
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