I've an off-the-wall question for the UNIX guru's on the mailing list. OK,
here goes. Being very unfamilliar with the specifics of how tar and tape
devices inter-relate, I was wondering if there is a way to dump the entire
contents of a tape onto a hard disk for backup onto a CD or just some other
media WITHOUT untarring the files. I realize that untarring and retarring
doesn't do anything to the contents of files, but I was just wondering if it
is possible? If not, I'll write a shell script or do command prompt to pipe
the result of untar to a new tar file...
Thanks for your time admins!
Received on Mon Dec 03 2001 - 18:14:37 NZDT