On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have received a LTO4 tape with supposedly many many files (the
> client claims that).
>
> However, when I do:
> tar xvpRf /dev/st0
> I get one and only one file out of the tape. (ditto for /dev/nst0)
Try this:
mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
tar xf /dev/nst0
mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1
tar xf /dev/nst0
...
See mt(1). You can replace tar with dd to copy the tar files to disk before
untaring later on.
> Anyway, I have replaced the /dev/mt... string with /dev/nst0 as
> well as /dev/st0 but the result is the same.
> The while being always true it keeps looping and the same file is extracted.
Looks like your tape driver is "rewinding the tape on close". Check st(4).
/dev/nst0 will not auto rewind the tape on close, but /dev/st0 will.
- Raja
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