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Re: recover data from tape

2003-07-17 03:51:02
Subject: Re: recover data from tape
From: Grigory Batalov <grisxa AT mail DOT ru>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 11:45:31 +0400
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:07:51 +0200
Moliere Christian <christian.moliere AT wanadooportails DOT com> wrote:

>     I'd like to see what are there as data on a tape but not in using
> amanda commands. I tried with tar and dd command without result. Does
> someone know how I could do that ?

  You should read http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda-24.html.
  For example:

$ mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
$ mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1
$ dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k skip=1 | tar t

--
 Grigory Batalov.

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