Good advice. When you can't find a file on a tape, try _listing_ the files on the tape and then list the path exactly as it reported it. Omitting the leading slash is the right thing to try.
Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > Just a quick guess, have you tried this: > > tar xvf /dev/st0 var/spool/mail/xxx > > i.e. withour the leading slash '/' > > Shao. > > Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Last week i made a backup of our mail server using tar. I used the > > following command: > > > > tar cvMf /dev/st0 -g /tmp/backuped /var/spool/mail > > > > The whole thing went into 3 tapes. > > > > One of our users destroyed (a.k.a. deleted) all of his messages and now > > he want's them back. I know that his mailbox lives on the second tape so > > i tried to insert the second tape and issue the following command: > > > > tar xvf /dev/st0 /var/spool/mail/xxx
