Re: Star basic usage

Gary wrote:
>I'm not sure that command is alright. I use
>
>star -cvM bs=64k fs=16m -f /dev/nst0 .
>
>Note that the files to back up are at the end.  The . indicates
>current dir.  So I cd in to the dir and then run the command.
>
>You could do something like
>star -cv f=/dev/tape /home/public/*

Thanks Gary, this command worked. Seems I just got the source and 
destination the wrong way round. In all the examples in the star manual, 
there's not one for doing a simple backup like this!

Paul