Mats Blomstrand wrote:

Hi All

I have been given a tape with "useful data" on. I dont know how the data is
put on the tape so cant figure out how to get to it. I have tried to use tar
to read directly from tape-device but it doesnt recognize anything.

Please enlight me with some tape-basics on how to investigate an unknown tape.
Thanks!
//Mats

[Part of a doc I wrote in french, but you'll understand the commands :]

dd if=/dev/nsa0.1 of=/tmp/restored/monFichierArchive bs=32k skip=1

root@backup # tar tvf /tmp/restored/monFichierArchive

ou

root@backup # restore -tvf /tmp/restored/monFichierArchive

I know, I'd rather translate this huge doc in english...

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Nicolas Ecarnot