Comments on: Solaris tar command to backup data on tape device

By: hany

hany — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:20:57 +0000

dears

tar rvf /dev/rmt0 filename is not working with me
using AIX, testing a 4k file, it take long time with no response…

any help

By: mihai

mihai — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 00:12:49 +0000

hey … i want to tar in solaris….pleas help me:

SunOS boomeryearbook.com 5.11 snv_89 i86pc i386 i86pc
tar xvf me.tar
tar: directory checksum error

By: Ravi``

Ravi`` — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:17:56 +0000

What is meaning of GNU tar in solaris

By: kb

kb — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 06:54:50 +0000

Hi,

why after i’ve made a daily backup, capacity for mounted on ‘/’ is 100%???i have to run rm * everyday to reduce the capacity from 100%. actually i think that the backup data went to ‘/’ and also to my backup tape.

TQVM…

By: SYED

SYED — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:25:04 +0000

HI,
how can i take solaris system backup using tar command?

By: Rajasekar

Rajasekar — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:36:12 +0000

Hi
How to take file backup and restore in solaris ,and differenc between ufsdump and tar commmand

By: Nagesh

Nagesh — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:46:49 +0000

how to remove tar file in media.

By: sollin

sollin — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:13:50 +0000

hi can i know how to identify the tape is write protected… please help me

By: nagaraju

nagaraju — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:59:12 +0000

how to configure DNS server in Solaries 5.10,
how to created Solaries partitions,
how to configured APACHE

By: nagaraju

nagaraju — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:56:45 +0000

hoe to configure NIS server in Solaries 5.10

By: Narith

Narith — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:58:43 +0000

Hi madhu,

I ever try to find command to restore a specific file or dir too, but i cannot find it.
Now i can use WinRAR program on Window. I just open tar or tar.gz file with this program, i can extract some files or dirs i want.

If you found other option pls share. :)

By: madhu

madhu — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:53:46 +0000

How do you only restore a specific file type onto a specific folder ?
Also, is there a way to restore files depending on date ?

By: Mohan

Mohan — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:27:27 +0000

Is there a way to check how much used space / freespace in the tape

By: tamer

tamer — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:32:27 +0000

hi…
when i do this
tar xvf /dev/rmt/0 tamer

where is tamer is a dir in the tape .

befor i didthis command im allredy in th path where i whant this dir to besor in

but whene i check i cannot find the data

hellp me pls

By: vivek

vivek — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 18:49:58 +0000

Just restore data from tape to hard disk. Did you used tar or dump command?

By: vinothkumar

vinothkumar — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:23:33 +0000

hi suppose i took a tape backup entire harddisk.now but my hard disk crashed . i want to recover this partition slice table whether it’s possible or not.plz help to sort it out

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 18:43:00 +0000

Hmm…

Try format

tar –cvf mytar.t.ar.gz file1 file2

By default it includes directory name however you can pass the following x or fF arguments to tar

tar –cvf –x dir1, dir2 mytar.t.ar.gz .

x Exclude. Use the exclude-filename argument as a
file containing a list of named files (or
directories) to be excluded from the tarfile when using the key letters c, x, or t.

F – With one F argument, tar will exclude all direc tories named SCCS from the tarfile. With two argu ments, FF , tar will exclude all directories named SCCS

By: Karthik

Karthik — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 02:30:00 +0000

how would i create a tar file so it does not copy the tar directory structure. For example:
tar -cf temp.tar /usr/local/myfile.txt

I dont want to have the directory structure in the tar file. I dont want “/usr/local/” in the tar file. I just want to file to be stored in the tar file.

By: Karthik

Karthik — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 02:29:00 +0000

how would i create a tar file so it does not copy the tar directory structure. For example:
tar -cf temp.tar /usr/local/myfile.txt

I dont want to have the directory structure in the tar file. I dont want “/usr/local/” in the tar file. I just want to file to be stored in the tar file.