On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 10:05:05AM -0400, Emery Guevremont wrote:
> I have a tape that was used for some backups, which has lost its label. 
> Now I'm trying to get a listing and restore the contents of this tape 
> but not sure how to.
> 
> Should I use btape to write a new label on the tape and then use bls and 
> bextract to get a listing of the files and restore them?


No.  Do not write to the tape.  Use bscan to determine what's on it.



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