[NTLUG:Discuss] tar problem

[Alvin Goats]

When I do backups to tape, I often tar a few directories together at the
same time:

tar -cvf /dev/st1 /bin /dogstar /frogstar /home/agoats

which tars the directories in the sequence /bin /dogstar /frogstar
/home/agoats.


I really haven't expolred the append option, but I would suspect that it
will try to append to a file data structure that already exists, i.e.
tarring /bin and then appending new stuff in /bin to /bin.

Alvin