On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Raja Subramanian <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote: >> Did not try mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1 though. Seems like a complicated >> process if I have to repeat "mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1" for 500+ K files >> that are typically found in animation/sfx archives. > > Ah, now I understand the back ground. > > A few months ago, I had to help someone extracting zillions of dpx files > from an LTO3 tape created on an IRIX box. I used an external HP SCSI > tape drive on a CentOS box and extracted everything using this command: > tar -b 1024 -xMvf /dev/nst0 > > Took a lot of head-scratching to find that the -M flag did the trick. >
Thanks for sharing your experience. > However, I can't remember if I got the Block of NULs error which you > mention. YMMV. The "Block of NULs" is throwing me off. Kind of indicates there is nothing in the tape at block 99713, Thanks again. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
