-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Haines Brown wrote: > 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?
Depends on the format. "Tape ARchive" most probably doesn't understand proprietary formats... > 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. [snip] > > When I tried the tvf options for tar, I get the same result. > > How does one extract the *xyz files from the tape? You don't mention having tried Googling for BRU? http://www.tolisgroup.com/products/ http://www.tolisgroup.com/about/contactus.html - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEtm+mS9HxQb37XmcRAix8AJ0bka3/3MOvVluYoeRpImYBKyVXFwCeNipl yNatw5wUUlUMZsp3JQSZf7g= =TNZs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
