TAR

[Nobody's Hero]

Hello All,
I am trying to tar a directory on tape, expolde it into a different directory. Any ideas?

Thx

[Phil Daws_2]

Tar it up using relative paths instead of absolute paths ie. usr/local instead of /usr/local

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

If the archive was made using absolute paths then you need to use 'pax' to restore the 'tar' archive to a different directory.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Helen French]

hey,

U need to use relative paths. Try this:
1) go to the directory u want to backup ( cd dir_path)
2) tar -cvf device_name .
3) go to the directory uu want to restore ( cd new_dir_path)
4) tar -xvf device_name

HTH,
Shiju

[Craig Rants · Accepted solution]

Robert,

Say you want to tar up the /sbin dir. I usually would use:
cd /
tar cvf /dev/rmt/0m ./sbin

When you tar tvf to see what is there you see./sbin
./sbin/aaa

etc...

Just the way I do it to make sure that it will come out relative.

GL,
C