How do I read a file on the holding disk?
Example: I have let AMANDA do all dumps to holding disk. This created
several files. I want to read one of them, say bacchus._dos_c.1. If I
flush the files to tape, then do the usual "dd if=/dev/... bs=32k skip=1
> test", I can read test with tar and gzip (I just have to position the tape correctly
>with "mt...fsf 1"). So far, so good.
But when I copy the file to a MO-disk (2048 bytes per sector) and then
try to read it, I get:
dd if=/scsi/DynaMo/linux/20001212/bacchus._dos_c.1 bs=32k skip=1 | gzip
-dc | tar -xvf -
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Why does if=<some device> work and if=<some file> does not? Is this
because I have an ext2 filesystem on the disk and copied the file with
cp?
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Regards
Chris Karakas
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