How to use tar command for tape drive.

[Corinna Vinschen]

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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