On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 at 10:03am, Vytas Janusauskas wrote > So I: > mt -t /dev/nst0 rewind > mt -t /dev/nst0 fsf 2 > dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k count=1 > > This list the following: > > AMANDA: FILE 20050304 dendron.l8r.net /mnt/vxa2/scans/c/Seven_Unix lev 0 > comp .gz program /bin/tar > To restore, position tape at start of file and run: > dd if=<tape> bs=32k skip=1 | /bin/gzip -dc | bin/tar -f... - > > So I rewind the tape skip 2 files and then issue: > > dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k skip=1 | /bin/gzip -dc | /bin/gtar -f ????
dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k skip=1 | /bin/gzip -dc | /bin/gtar -f - Note the trailing hyphen, which tells tar to read from stdin. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
