Reading a Solaris tape created by ufsdump

[Elfyn McBratney]

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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