I asked this question before, but received no answer. Sorry to post it
again.
The question is a simple one: can I use tar to extract a file from a
tape backup made with a backup application?
On a sarge machine, I have a WangDAT 3100 tape drive from the late
1990s. The tape from which I would like to recover certain files was
made back in 1998 with bru 2000/xbru.
# mt -f /dev/st0 status
drive type = Generic SCSI-2 tape
drive status = 318767616
sense key error = 0
file number = -1
block number = -1
Tape block size 512 byte. Density code 0x13 (DDS (61000 bpi)).
Soft error count since last status = 0
General status bits on (1010000); ONLINE IM_REP_EN
I tried:
# tar xvf /dev/st0 *.xyz
tar: /dev/st0: Cannot read: Input/output error
tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
When I tried the tvf options for tar, I get the same result.
How does one extract the *xyz files from the tape?
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Haines Brown
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