Paul
The -overlooked- hyphen of dd was the culprit.
I now get the desired response from the drive.
Thanks
Gerrit Hommersom
Hommersom, Gerrit (G) wrote:
> For emergency testing I want to read the amanda files with standard
> Unix/Linux tools
>
> W Curtiss preson's book suggests that amanda ta
Hommersom, Gerrit (G) wrote:
For emergency testing I want to read the amanda files with standard Unix/Linux
tools
W Curtiss preson's book suggests that amanda tapes can be read with the command
dd -if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k count=1
Note that dd does not take options with a hyphen, at not on any OS
For emergency testing I want to read the amanda files with standard Unix/Linux
tools
W Curtiss preson's book suggests that amanda tapes can be read with the command
dd -if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k count=1
Attempting to move it to the next file with
mt /dev/nst0 fsf 1
dd -if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k count=1
per
