On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 12:12:52AM +0200, Leopold Palomo wrote:
-> Hi,
->
-> I need to recover information from a 8mm tape (8200 ...) write by a
-> Xerox Docutech 135 and I don't know how to do exactly. Talking with
-> xerox people they said that the information is stored with a normal unix
-> tar. I can read a file but it only has the volume description of the
-> tape. So I don't know how to access the other information. I don't know
-> if I have to change the partition, counts, etc. All of tapes is new for
-> me.
-> I can do a cat /dev/st0 > file.tar and recover the volume descriptor but
-> nothing more.
->
-> Any ideas, has anybody suffered a similar problem?
->
-> Leo
First off, deal with the tape using the no rewind device, /dev/nst0. The
device you are using (\dev\st0) will rewind the tape after each access. So
it will appear that you can only access the first archive.
Second, can you access the drive (using the no rewind device) with mt? If
so, you can use mt to move around from archive to archive.
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