On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Alec Berryman wrote:
Haines Brown on 2006-07-13 09:48:02 -0400:
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?
I don't know much about tape drives, but I would assume if you used dd
to copy the information on the tape to a file on your disk, you'd be
able to read it like a normal tar file.
Google this issue, you have to use kernel 2.2 or set the block size to
64kb or some weird number to get the data off of the tape.
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