On Wednesday 08 February 2006 03:54, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
Got it.
tar -tvb 240 -f /dev/tape0n | more
lists the files. I did some searching and found that the error (cannot
allocate memory) sometimes shows up when the block size is wrong.
do'h,
that is why I always save the command
but it could not access
them. Fortunately they - on purpose - used tar format for transportability so
I could get the files out.
From: Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2006/02/08 Wed AM 06:01:00 EST
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting at archives on tapes
On 2/5/06, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, I think I figured out what they are doing. They have a bunch of files
for the labels. If I move forward using asf n where n is a number from 1-n I
can walk through the label files. They take two files/label file so I go
from 1 to 3
: Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2006/02/07 Tue AM 10:20:09 EST
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting at archives on tapes
On 2/5/06, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, I think I figured out what they are doing. They have a bunch of files
I dug up some docs and found the format is
Tape label Fileset label First backupset Filesetlabel second backup set
where each section/filemark begins a tar archive. Tape label is a file in Tar
format that allows the program to identify the tape. Data following tape
label are fileset/backup
Got it.
tar -tvb 240 -f /dev/tape0n | more
lists the files. I did some searching and found that the error (cannot
allocate memory) sometimes shows up when the block size is wrong.
For dd
dd -if=/dev/tape0n -of=archive1 bs=240b
did it.
Thanks for the help. I got to delve a little deeper
On 2/5/06, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a scsi tape library and a backup program that creates datasets of tar
files on the tapes. I gather each dataset is a tar file. I would like to be
able to access each of these tar files. At this point I can tar
-tvf /dev/tape0 and
Okay, I think I figured out what they are doing. They have a bunch of files
for the labels. If I move forward using asf n where n is a number from 1-n I
can walk through the label files. They take two files/label file so I go
from 1 to 3 to 5
How do I get to this file to untar it?
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