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Re: Reading a Solaris tape created by ufsdump
- From: Elfyn McBratney <elfyn at cygwin dot com>
- To: "Meier, Daniel W." <DANIEL dot W dot MEIER at saic dot com>
- Cc: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 02:32:16 +0100
- Subject: Re: Reading a Solaris tape created by ufsdump
- References: <08A89F1DEA45E44DA4DF4585C3E0FBA07791B6@cp-its-exs04.mail.saic.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Meier, Daniel W. wrote:
> Any hints on how to get the files off of a SDLT tape created by Solaris
> ufsdump?
>
> I can access the tape handily:
> $ mt -f /dev/st0 status 3
> tape capacity : 34571200 KB remaining : 34571200 KB
> current block : 0 write protected : yes
> datcompression : off
> min block size : 4 max block size : 16777212
> def block size : 8192 cur block size : 0
>
> Features:
> ---------
> [...]
>
> and I did the "mt -f /dev/st0 setblk 0"
>
> but what command do I use to pull the data onto disk?
I beleive this can be done with GNU tar (tar -xf /dev/st0?). Take a look at
main/info tar and `tar --help'. I might be wrong.
Elfyn
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