[HPADM] Compressed tar archive riddle

Jean.Desrosiers_at_VISAER.com
Date: 05/03/04

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    To: hpux-admin@dutchworks.nl
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 14:27:47 -0400

    Good Day all

    Is it possible to create a tar tape from a compressed tar archive file, blah.tar.Z, without the need to extract and write the contents of the compressed archive to disk first? I need to duplicate a tape that I made months ago and disk space is an issue. Besides it's so inefficient.....

    I've tried a couple of combinations zcat'ing the archive and end up with the files being written to the directory I am in and nothing going to tape.

    I firmly believe that someone out there has the elusive one line command that will do it. Maybe something combined with dd?

     

    I'll summarize this teaser to keep all informed !!

     

    J Desrosiers

    Operational Oracle DBA

    978-570-1677

    jean.desrosiers@visaer.com

      

    


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