Re: restiring w/o amanda

[Christoph Scheeder]

Hi,

i hope you tried the command
  dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k skip=1 | tar -xvf -
and not the one you have in your mail....

as you are running linux, try pulling the image to disk with 
  dd if=/dev/nst0 of=file01
and then use 
  dd if=file01 bs=32k skip=1 | tar xvf - 
on it. 
dd seems to have problems with some scsi-tapes and the skip option.
hope it helps
Christoph

Jerry Lynde schrieb:

> mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
> dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32 skip=1 | tar xv -
                     --^--           --^--  
                   missing k      missing f
> 
> but when I use the tar (yes, it's gtar, really) it complains
> that the file is not a valid archive. I can restore files using