Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:33:53 -0400 | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Re: New thread RDSL, post-2.6.20 kernels and amanda (tar) miss-fires |
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On Thursday 15 March 2007, Willy Tarreau wrote:
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>with "/bin/tar -f - >/tmp/test/", you ask bash to open the file > "/tmp/test/" for write, then start tar and pass this file as its > stdout. Obviously this is wrong. I think that what you're trying to do > is send extracted files to /tmp/test, which is what '-C' is for. Also, > you need to specify a command for tar. You didn't. I bet if you do the > following, it will work : > >[root@coyote data]# dd if=00010.coyote._lib.1 bs=32k skip=1 | > /bin/gzip -dc | /bin/tar -C /tmp/test/ -xf - > >Now, Gene, this is becoming totally off-topic right here.
My apologies, I've been corrected, thanks for your patience. And I'll see if I can get that text in the amanda file headers amended too.
>Regards, >Willy
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