[Veritas-bu] Accessing a tape with Tar

Subject:	[Veritas-bu] Accessing a tape with Tar
From:	AhrensJ AT psi DOT ca (Jason Ahrens [ahrensj AT psi DOT ca])
Date:	Wed, 16 May 2001 10:59:54 -0400

I am trying to determine if there is a better way to do this, and also, if
it can be done at all under Windows

To read a tape image manuall under Unix (no multiplexing), I do the
following:

mt -f /dev/rmt/0cbn asf 1
dd if=/dev/rmt/0cbn of=/dev/null bs=1024 count=1
(I can now do the tar command)

Is there a better way to skip the 1024byte Backup header?

Is there something I can use under NT to do the same thing?

Thanks

Jason

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