On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 at 10:03am, Vytas Janusauskas wrote

> So I:
>   mt -t /dev/nst0 rewind
>   mt -t /dev/nst0 fsf 2
> dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k count=1
> 
> This list the following:
> 
>   AMANDA: FILE 20050304 dendron.l8r.net /mnt/vxa2/scans/c/Seven_Unix lev 0 
> comp .gz program /bin/tar
> To restore, position tape at start of file and run:
>          dd if=<tape> bs=32k skip=1 | /bin/gzip -dc | bin/tar -f... -
> 
> So I rewind the tape skip 2 files and then issue:
> 
> dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k skip=1 | /bin/gzip -dc | /bin/gtar -f  ????

dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k skip=1 | /bin/gzip -dc | /bin/gtar -f -

Note the trailing hyphen, which tells tar to read from stdin.

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University