Hello Iain

The should a description in the System Administrator Guide, called reading 
tape with tar or something like that.

You proably need to install the modified GNU tar Netbackup uses, specially if 
you have multiplexed tapes. I think is a part of the Netbackup client

To list contents on a multiplexed tape use tar -iMtvf <norewind device-file> 
tar ++help gives all the possible options

If you have problems feel free to mail me offlist

Regards
Michael

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 10:17:26 +0100, Iain Miller wrote
> Hi Guys,
> 
> We run netbackup 4.5 on a Sparc Solaris 8 box.
> 
> We just replaced all the tapes in our backup schedule due to possible
> faulty media/tape drive.  We then got our tape drive replaced and new
> media used and this has helped our backups.
> 
> However, I have been asked to see what data we have available on the
> old tapes.  Now, I don't want to be putting the potentially bad tapes
> back into the nice shiny new tape drive just in case.  I have an old
> drive sitting around that I was planning on attaching to a test 
> server which does not run netbackup.
> 
> My question is - is there a simple way to extract the contents of
> these tapes without using netbackup??  I'd initially want to produce 
> a listing of all the images on the tapes and then if required 
> actually extract the data from one of the images.  AFAIK netbackup 
> just uses tar so this should be possible but I have no prior 
> experience of doing this and was looking for some pointers.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Iain.
> 
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