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Re: How to use tar command for tape drive.
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 19:13:14 +0200
- Subject: Re: How to use tar command for tape drive.
- References: <001601c43cf9$dd9613e0$82154d0a@apac.cisco.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On May 18 22:32, 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
>
> So I tried with the following command "tar -cv //./tape0 C:\BackupFolder"
> The error below I got and I have to press ctrl+C to exit from this command.
>
> tar: Removing leading `//' from member names
> ./tape0
> tar: //./tape0: Read error at byte 0, reading 9728 bytes: No space left on
> devic
> e
> ./tape0
> 0
> 100644 0000620 0000621 37777777777 00000000000 013432 0
> u
> star Administrator mkpasswd
>
> Can somebody please help me in this.
The users guide would be helpful.
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html
Corinna
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