On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 04:48:42AM -0800, Ron Rogers wrote:
> List,
> 
> OS RedHat 7.3
> Oeacle 8.1.7 rel3
>  I have had a disk failure on my test box and a datafile needs to be
> recovered from my tape backup. The tape contains 6 large datafiles and I
> get errors after reading the first one.
>  Does anyone know the linux FTP option to --ignore-read-errors? The man



I assume you mean tar option?  I use gnu tar:

 gtar --help | grep fail
     --ignore-failed-read   do not exit with nonzero on unreadable files






> command does not list it. I feel that there might be a bad section of
> tape and I would like to skip it until the next file header.
>  I am in the process of exporting the data by month from the production
> server to reload into a recreated datafile if I can't get the tape to
> work. I would prefer to use the tape restore because the data needed is
> 3 GIG and will take a long time to exp/imp.
>  I guess this is what you get when you use scrounged equipment to make
> a test box to improve your knowledge. It also tests your backup/restore
> equipment.
> Thanks,
> Ron
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