SUMMARY

From: Balki Bhaskaran <um_mgr_at_thor.niwa.cri.nz>
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 06:42:38 +0000 (GMT)

managers,

 It is amazing...
 a problem is identified, discussed and solved within 30-40 minutes!

PROBLEM: (not anymore!)
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How do I archive/retrieve a list of files (say, listed in listPB)
on to DLT tape?

SUMMARY:
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Thanks to Sophia Liow <Sophia.Liow_at_cmis.CSIRO.AU>
Her suggestion of

$ tar cvf /dev/nrmt1h `cat listPB`

works fine for me to archive as well as retrieve!

Thanks to all other respondents (see below)
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Ian Mortimer (mortimer_at_physics.uq.edu.au) and
Paul Tyler <pct_at_ansto.gov.au> suggested the following:

 tar -R listPB -cvf /dev/nrmt1h

 tar -cvf /dev/nrmt1h -R listPB

 I got the following message but the files were not archived:

  rec 1: listPB

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Frank Gallacher(franx_at_oas.telstra.com.au wrote) suggested
 tar -cvf /dev/nrmt1h -R./listPB

I got the error message:

 tar: unrecognized option `-.'
 tar: rec 0: Unknown option. Use 'tar --help' for a complete
 list of options.

Thanks to everyone!

Bhaskaran

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