Title: Restore from tape (not using Amanda) syntax
Hi Peoples,
I'm trying to dump from an Amanda tape onto the hard-drive by not using Amanda. This is probably a you don't know how to use tar properly question but:
#mt -f /dev/rmt/0n status
Vendor 'SONY ' Product 'SDX-300C ' tape drive
--On Wednesday, September 25, 2002 21:38:55 +1000 Gordon Cormack
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Peoples,
I'm trying to dump from an Amanda tape onto the hard-drive by not using
Amanda. This is probably a you don't know how to use tar properly
question but:
I'm obviously doing something
--On Wednesday, September 25, 2002 08:42:07 -0500 Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
--On Wednesday, September 25, 2002 21:38:55 +1000 Gordon Cormack
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Peoples,
I'm trying to dump from an Amanda tape onto the hard-drive by not using
Amanda. This is probably a
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 09:38:55PM +1000, Gordon Cormack wrote:
I'm trying to dump from an Amanda tape onto the hard-drive by not using
Amanda. This is probably a you don't know how to use tar properly question
but:
#mt -f /dev/rmt/0n status
Vendor 'SONY' Product
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 09:38:55PM +1000, Gordon Cormack wrote:
Hi Peoples,
I'm trying to dump from an Amanda tape onto the hard-drive by not using
Amanda. This is probably a you don't know how to use tar properly question
but:
#mt -f /dev/rmt/0n status
Vendor 'SONY'
Gordon,
You've got several things wrong here.
First, you didn't use mt to forward the tape to the beginning of a tape
file. After your rewind command, try:
mt -f tapedev fsf number
where number is the location of the tape file that you want to extract.
Just for testing, pick 1.
Title: RE: Restore from tape (not using Amanda) syntax
Thanks again guys for your quick and informative responses.
The main problem was the lack of coffee at 9:30pm onwards at night but essentially this command is what did it for me:
dd if=/dev/rmt/0n bs=32k skip=1 | /usr/local/bin/tar -xv
