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How to use tar command for tape drive.


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.

With regards from
Nabhonil Sinha
Infosys - Cisco OSDC, Bangalore 
Tel - 91 80 2852 0261 x 2490
Direct - 91 80 2501 0490 
Mobile - 91-9886120018 
Email1 - nabhonil_sinha@infosys.com; 
Email2 - nasinha@cisco.com 



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