Thank's a lot to Charles and Lars.
Well, finally I could read from the tape. Charles, it was the rewind question.
I can access file by file doing a simple cat /dev/nst0 > file.tar and after work
with it. The problem is that the information is stored in a lot of files with index
etc and well
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 11:38:14PM +0200, Leopold Palomo wrote:
-> Thank's alot to Charles, Lars and Ronald J.,
->
-> Tomorrow I will try to do all of your ideas,
->
-> but Ronald J, I did the tar command, and I only obtain one file.
->
-> Charles, I don't understand very much how to avoid the
Thank's alot to Charles, Lars and Ronald J.,
Tomorrow I will try to do all of your ideas,
but Ronald J, I did the tar command, and I only obtain one file.
Charles, I don't understand very much how to avoid the rewind option. I can
access to the devide with the mt command, moreover, I have to do
tar xvf /dev/st0
-Original Message-
From: Leopold Palomo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 6:13 PM
To: Expert
Subject: [expert] How to read a 8mm tape with xerox docutech files
Hi,
I need to recover information from a 8mm tape (8200 ...) write by a
Xerox Docutech
I learned this trick from an old UNIX guru:
Run dd if=/dev/tape of=/tmp/tape.out count=64
(replace /dev/tape with what ever your tape device name is)
('count' and 'bs' (blocksize) could vary depending on how much data
you want to pull off the tape)
the run 'file /tmp/tape.out' this will let y
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 12:12:52AM +0200, Leopold Palomo wrote:
-> Hi,
->
-> I need to recover information from a 8mm tape (8200 ...) write by a
-> Xerox Docutech 135 and I don't know how to do exactly. Talking with
-> xerox people they said that the information is stored with a normal unix
-> ta
Hi,
I need to recover information from a 8mm tape (8200 ...) write by a
Xerox Docutech 135 and I don't know how to do exactly. Talking with
xerox people they said that the information is stored with a normal unix
tar. I can read a file but it only has the volume description of the
tape. So I don'
