There are a few reasons I can think of that this will not work... (stock) tar does not, by itself, allow for accessing of remote resources. You need to couple it with something like rsh. I don't think that the filers allow you to access their devices in this way (plus your path to the device is probably not complete, even if this did work).
However, I have never tried this type of thing with a filer, so it may actually work. It does not sound like it should, tho. I have only used filer-attached tape devices with dump.
alexei
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Michael Galloway Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 1:13 PM To: Toaster Mail Exploder Subject: tarring files off netapp attached tape devices?
hmm ...
i must be missing something simple here. i've got a DLT7000 in a library attached to one of my F520's, and i want to grab a couple of tar files off tape. tar fails with this error:
sif /tmp# tar tvf poplar-1:nrst0a tar: poplar-1:nrst0a: Cannot open: Input/output error tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
where poplar-1 is the netapp.
-- michael