OT: tar compatible winsoftware
Wojciech Puchar
i need it for SCSI DAT tape.
or maybe unix software able to read/write in M$-Backup format.
thanks!
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Frederick Bruckman
> anyone know such thing like tar for windows?
> i need it for SCSI DAT tape.
I hope you're not asking here for a driver for your tape drive. :-)
WinZip can open tar and gzipped tar files. (The URL is obvious.) The
free evaluation copy has no time limit, but only lets you open one
archive at a time. For a few bucks more, the full version lets you drag
and drop between archives.
Frederick
Michael Kukat
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> anyone know such thing like tar for windows?
> i need it for SCSI DAT tape.
tar works fine in CygWin 32, which is a port of the unix commandline tools to
Windows, gcc and stuff included in the biggest version. Look somewhere at the
RedHat site, you can download it there.
gnu tar and gzip are included there.
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Wojciech Puchar
> > anyone know such thing like tar for windows?
> > i need it for SCSI DAT tape.
>
> I hope you're not asking here for a driver for your tape drive. :-)
somewhat...
> WinZip can open tar and gzipped tar files. (The URL is obvious.) The
yes but can it drive SCSI tape?
i just want program for windows doing thing like that:
tar -bblocksize -cvf /dev/rst0 <filelist>
Wojciech Puchar
> > i need it for SCSI DAT tape.
>
> tar works fine in CygWin 32, which is a port of the unix commandline tools to
> Windows, gcc and stuff included in the biggest version. Look somewhere at the
> RedHat site, you can download it there.
>
> gnu tar and gzip are included there.
can this tar drive SCSI tape ?
i have dos tar that can make .tar file, but can't write to tape
Diana Eichert
It looks like it should work under the latest releases of cygwin:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2000-04/msg00269.html
Also, there appears to be something called "nttar"
http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda-win32/
diana
Michael Kukat
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > tar works fine in CygWin 32, which is a port of the unix commandline tools to
> > Windows, gcc and stuff included in the biggest version. Look somewhere at the
> > RedHat site, you can download it there.
> >
> > gnu tar and gzip are included there.
>
> can this tar drive SCSI tape ?
>
> i have dos tar that can make .tar file, but can't write to tape
tar is no device driver, and device the Unix API to control devices is a _BIT_
different to the way Windows handles it. You can try it, CygWin does a lot of
stuff, and you can create some kind of /dev and things. But if it can really
address your SCSI tape... don't know.
Mike Parson
> anyone know such thing like tar for windows?
> i need it for SCSI DAT tape.
WinTar from SpiralComm.
They've got a version that will write to a local SCSI tape and a
version that will write to a remote/unix hosted tape drive.
I've not used this recently, but I did use the remote version a
few years ago and several jobs back to backup our accounting person's
Win95 desktop to our one tape drive that was hosted on a BSDi
box.
> or maybe unix software able to read/write in M$-Backup format.
Sorry, can't help you there.
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