Good idea! In this case a commerical program created the tape but fortunately they have good docs so I could find what they do. I needed to get to the archive because for some reason the commercial program had the files I wanted in a backup set listed in the tape contents directory but it could not access them. Fortunately they - on purpose - used tar format for transportability so I could get the files out.
> > From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/02/08 Wed AM 06:01:00 EST > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting at archives on tapes > > On Wednesday 08 February 2006 03:54, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > Got it. > > > > tar -tvb 240 -f /dev/tape0n | more > > > > lists the files. I did some searching and found that the error (cannot > > allocate memory) sometimes shows up when the block size is wrong. > > > > do'h, > > that is why I always save the command line, which I used to put something > onto > the tape.. ;) > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
