> > 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.
>  
> docs/RESTORE says the same thing as the chapter, basically.
> 
> when I run:
> # mt rewind
> # mt fsf 1
> # dd if=/dev/rmt/0hn bs=32k count=1
> I get:
> AMANDA: FILE 20031127 spork.unterlaw.com 
> /u05/oracle/admin/testua lev 0 comp N program 
> /usr/local/bin/tar To restore position tape at start of file and run:
>     dd if=<tape> bs=32k skip=1 | /usr/local/bin/tar -f... -
> 1+0 records in
> 1+0 records out
> 
> GREAT...this is one of the two things I would like to 
> restore. Fantastic. So it appears as if this is the first 
> thing on the tape...so I cd /u05/oracle/admin and run # mt 
> rewind # mt fsf 1 # dd if=/dev/rmt/0hn bs=1 skip=1 | 
> /usr/local/bin/tar -xf -
> 107+0 records in
> 107+0 records out
> 
> 
> Great...now what? And now if I try to run that dd command 
> again, it says:
> read: not enough space
> read: not enough space
> 0+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> 
> What 107 records is is talking about the first time?? The 
> tape never appeared to be active after I ran my dd command 
> the first time, so what did it do with the mysterious 107 records.
> 
> The doc is clear on what commands to run, but I ran them, and 
> nothing seems to have happened.

ACTUALLY - I take that back, something seems to have happened, because I
now have 464 files in /u05/oracle/admin that were not there before, and
are NOT /u05/oracle/admin/testua...it IS however the /etc slice from a
different server. How did that happen if I looked at the header for
after mt fsf 1 and it was /u05/oracle/admin/testua.  OMG...this is
horrible. 
>