On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 10:32:47AM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> 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.


Vytas, Tony,

Would the header message have been any clearer if it said

   dd if=<tape> bs=32k skip=1 | /bin/gzip -dc | bin/tar -...f -

or maybe

   dd if=<tape> bs=32k skip=1 | /bin/gzip -dc | bin/tar -<tar_options> -f -

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