Haines Brown on 2006-07-13 09:48:02 -0400: > I tried: > > # tar xvf /dev/st0 *.xyz > tar: /dev/st0: Cannot read: Input/output error > tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > > When I tried the tvf options for tar, I get the same result. > > How does one extract the *xyz files from the tape? I don't know much about tape drives, but I would assume if you used dd to copy the information on the tape to a file on your disk, you'd be able to read it like a normal tar file.
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