On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 at 1:19am, Gene Heskett wrote > On Monday 11 November 2002 08:20, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > >On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 at 4:36am, Gene Heskett wrote > > > >> Anyway, the advise on how to recover useing tar & gzip doesn't > >> seem to want to work. The only way to get dd to actually write > >> a disk file is with dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k of=tape.contents.# > >> where the # is a sequence # extension in /tmp. And that only > >> works if an 'mt tell' says its at block 64. > > > >Don't forget to skip over the amanda header: > > > >dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k skip=1 of=tape.file.1 > > > In fact, that recomndation to skip=1 was exactly what was wrong > Joshua. Removing that, then the tape doesn't have to be > repositioned after reading the header to see if its compressed or > not. So the sequence I'm running at the moment is:
Sorry for the confusion -- that was exactly the scenario I was trying to address with the second set of commands I sent. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University