Re: tar question

2006-10-31 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Mike Spenard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After tar has finished writing to the tape device is there > a way to see how large the finished tar on tape is? > > Also, is there a way to monitor the transfer rate to the > tape device? dd gives you both of these pieces of information. just pipe tar thr

Re: tar question

2006-10-31 Thread Martin Schröder
2006/10/31, Mike Spenard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: After tar has finished writing to the tape device is there a way to see how large the finished tar on tape is? gtar has --totals Also, is there a way to monitor the transfer rate to the tape device? gtar has --checkpoint Best Martin

Re: tar question

2006-10-31 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 11:53:53AM +0100, Andreas Kahari wrote: | >How about tar czpf / | dd obs=$BIGNUM > /dev/nrst0? More sophisticated | >methods are always possible, of course... | | I was thinking about something similar but using buffer from the | misc/buffer port somehow instead of dd. I be

Re: tar question

2006-10-31 Thread ropers
On 31/10/06, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 11:06:13AM +0100, ropers wrote: > On 31/10/06, Mike Spenard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >After tar has finished writing to the tape device is there > >a way to see how large the finished tar on tape is? > > Forgive

Re: tar question

2006-10-31 Thread Andreas Kahari
On 31/10/06, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 11:06:13AM +0100, ropers wrote: > On 31/10/06, Mike Spenard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >After tar has finished writing to the tape device is there > >a way to see how large the finished tar on tape is? > > Forgive

Re: tar question

2006-10-31 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 11:06:13AM +0100, ropers wrote: > On 31/10/06, Mike Spenard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >After tar has finished writing to the tape device is there > >a way to see how large the finished tar on tape is? > > Forgive me if this sounds impressively stupid, but would you not j

Re: tar question

2006-10-31 Thread ropers
On 31/10/06, Mike Spenard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: After tar has finished writing to the tape device is there a way to see how large the finished tar on tape is? Forgive me if this sounds impressively stupid, but would you not just use ls(1) for that? Also, is there a way to monitor the tra

Re: tar question

2006-10-17 Thread Andy Hayward
On 10/17/06, Didier Wiroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, How can I exclude files or directories when using tar? I found that gnu tar uses --exclude, but how can I do this in openbsd?! Use find (/usr/bin/find) to select the files you require, and pipe the output to tar. -- ach

Re: tar question

2006-10-17 Thread Didier Wiroth
sorry forget it guys ;-/ installing gtar is the issue ...