Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 10:32:47AM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 at 10:03am, Vytas Janusauskas wrote > > > > > So I: > > > mt -t /dev/nst0 rewind > > > mt -t /dev/nst0 fsf 2 > > > dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k count=1 > > > > > > This list the following: > > > > > > AMANDA: FILE 20050304 dendron.l8r.net /mnt/vxa2/scans/c/Seven_Unix lev 0 > > > comp .gz program /bin/tar > > > To restore, position tape at start of file and run: > > > dd if=<tape> bs=32k skip=1 | /bin/gzip -dc | bin/tar -f... - > > > step 1 > > > So I rewind the tape skip 2 files and then issue: > > > > > > dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k skip=1 | /bin/gzip -dc | /bin/gtar -f ???? > > > > dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k skip=1 | /bin/gzip -dc | /bin/gtar -f - > > > > Note the trailing hyphen, which tells tar to read from stdin. > > > Vytas, Tony, > > Would the header message have been any clearer if it said > > dd if=<tape> bs=32k skip=1 | /bin/gzip -dc | bin/tar -...f - > > or maybe > > dd if=<tape> bs=32k skip=1 | /bin/gzip -dc | bin/tar -<tar_options> -f - > yes, personally, I had no problem with the hyphen, but ... I posted last week that my confusion had arisen out of the "skip=1", having located the required archive. The need to rewind and skip 2 files in this case could have been avoided at step 1 above. Now *that* would make a difference. Cheers, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire, England