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  From: David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
  To  : Linh Yeung <Linh.Yeung@aspect.com.au>
  Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 10:26:46 +0930

Re: How to restore from QIC Tape !

Linh

> When I do :
>         tar -xvpf /dev/st0
> 
> I get the following :
>         tar: Humm, this doesn't look like a tar archive
>         tar: skipping to next file header

You could try something like:

[linh]% dd if=/dev/nst0 of=tape.dd
... (1)
[linh]% file tape.dd
... (2)
[linh]% tar tf tape.dd
... (3)

(1) This should extract a significant amount of data from the tape
(2) This will tell you what type of file the system thinks it is [it may
just say binary data]
(3) Try tar tzf -- someone may have gzipped it along the way

DSL

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