On May 18 22:32, Nabhonil Sinha wrote: > hi, > > I have a tape drive installed in my windows 2000 system. How can i create > archive on tape. With the latest cygwin installed, I am able to list the > contents of the tape using the command "tar -tvf //./tape0" however I am > unable to create archive on tape using the command "tar -cvf //./tape0 > C:\BackupFolder". The error i am getting is as follows:- > > tar: //./tape0: Cannot open: Invalid argument > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > > So I tried with the following command "tar -cv //./tape0 C:\BackupFolder" > The error below I got and I have to press ctrl+C to exit from this command. > > tar: Removing leading `//' from member names > ./tape0 > tar: //./tape0: Read error at byte 0, reading 9728 bytes: No space left on > devic > e > ./tape0 > 0 > 100644 0000620 0000621 37777777777 00000000000 013432 0 > u > star Administrator mkpasswd > > Can somebody please help me in this.
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