On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 at 3:21pm, Rebecca Pakish Crum wrote

> Has anyone ever done this? I'm finding the documentation confusing.
> We're working on disaster recovery and I'd really like to know how to do
> this...
> 
> Specifically - in 'the chapter' they outline the commands one is
> supposed to use, but I don't understand them...

docs/RESTORE is pretty clear, IMHO.  Have a look at that, and then let us 
know *exactly* what you don't understand.  As a short intro, you use 'mt' 
to position the tape, 'dd' to grab the raw image off the tape, and 
restore/'tar x' to extract the contents of the image.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University