System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

Example—Copying Files to a Tape (tar)

The following example shows how to copy three files to the tape in tape drive 0.


$ cd /export/home/kryten
$ ls reports
reportA reportB reportC
$ tar cvf /dev/rmt/0 reports
a reports/ 0 tape blocks
a reports/reportA 59 tape blocks
a reports/reportB 61 tape blocks
a reports/reportC 63 tape blocks
$ tar tvf /dev/rmt/n