Joseph
To interactively list the contents of a tape, pipe the output to the
program you used during the backup. For example I use xfsdump on the SGI,
so I will issue the command:
amrestore -p $TAPE whatever (as you say) | xfsrestore -i - ./
This will allow me to browse the contents of the backup and restore the
files I select into the current directory.
Jan
Joseph Del Corso wrote:
> Hello,
> Can someone clarify for me how to list tape content?
>
> Specifically I know I can issue the following command:
>
> amrestore $TAPE whatever
>
> And according to archived emails, this should list tape content...
> but according to the man page, this also extracts the contents of the
> tape. I don't want to extract anything (yet), I simply want to list
> the directory/file contents of what's on the tape to see if everything
> was backed up correctly.
>
> Is the line (above) the exact syntax for doing this? or am I forgetting
> some flag that doesn't automatically restore files?
>
> Joe
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