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? What I have is this when I do tar -tvf /dev/tape0n. -rw-rw---- 0/0 1994 2004-11-20 20:56:25 /tmp/fs_95.lbl Thanks. On Sunday February 5 2006 23:36, Richard Fish wrote: > 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 see the file that contains the tape label. But I > > can't get beyond that. I've tried skipping to the next file, records, > > set mark using mt with no luck. > > mt is the correct command, but you need to make sure you are using a > no-rewind tape device (ntape or nst0). Otherwise you will end up > seeking to the next file, closing the file descriptor, which causes > the driver to rewind the tape. > > -Richard -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
