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09-04-2007

donovan

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Writing tar file to tape

Hi Guy`s I`m a newbie to Unix and I`m starting to love it

I got stuck donig backups of tar files to tape

I use this to find all tar files
find . -name '*.tar.*' > output
in output there would be n of file eg. 6
the size output is 156 but tar files are:
9.3M Jul 18 09:48 arch_done_032007.tar.gz
25M Jul 18 09:53 arch_done_042007.tar.gz
67M Jul 18 10:01 arch_done_052007.tar.gz
192M Jul 18 10:27 arch_done_062007.tar.gz
291M Aug 2 11:05 arch_done_072007.tar.gz
544M Sep 3 12:05 arch_done_082007.tar.gz
I then tar output to tape using this command
tar -cvf /dev/rmt/0 output
response is
a 2.0K Sep 3 18:47 output

can some one please help me

thanks donovan

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