Re: [cobalt-users] Is there a way to copy and move the entire con tents of the Hard drive

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Frank Johnson wrote:

> What is the proper command to untar the file after you have run the
> backup?

Depends how you tarred it.

# tar -x filename.ext extracts to a directory named filename (but
without the extension).

# tar -xz extracts it if it was gzipped as well.

# tar -xzf also lists the files as it's untarring.

I create as .gz, and then use the third example above when untarring.

Jeff
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