There are many different ways to save data on UNIX system. The most common commands are:
Using those commands it is possible to save and restore data from (to) any UNIX system you use.
The Computing Service had installed also on their VMS system the tar command. In this way everybody can exchange data from UNIX and VMS systems.
The Computing Service supports on each system available at LNF the tar command on magnetic tape 90m with capacity 2.0 GB , without any hardware/software compression facilities.
Here is the list of the tapes available and systems where the tapes are connected:
The Tar command usage is very similar on UNIX and VAX . Infact you can create tar on disk and on tape, in the follow there are some examples that show the general tar usage:
The Tar command usage is very similar on UNIX and VAX . Infact you can create tar on disk and on tape, in the follow there are some examples that show the general tar usage:
In this example we are saving files from a scratch subdir named ntupla/ on tape and dismount the tape.
In the next example we want to add another directory to the same archive:
To determine the table of contents, use:
To extract file from the archive:
Using this last command you create two subdirectory: ntupla/ and rawdata/ if don't exist.
You can specify subsets of the original archive:
UNIX: Extract $MUA0:
Using this last command you create two subdirectory: ntupla/ and rawdata/ if don't exist.
You can specify subsets of the original archive:
