Re: Using tar to extract files from tape
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Haines Brown wrote:
> I asked this question before, but received no answer. Sorry to
> post it again.
>
> The question is a simple one: can I use tar to extract a file
> from a tape backup made with a backup application?
Depends on the format. "Tape ARchive" most probably doesn't
understand proprietary formats...
> On a sarge machine, I have a WangDAT 3100 tape drive from the
> late 1990s. The tape from which I would like to recover certain
> files was made back in 1998 with bru 2000/xbru.
[snip]
>
> When I tried the tvf options for tar, I get the same result.
>
> How does one extract the *xyz files from the tape?
You don't mention having tried Googling for BRU?
http://www.tolisgroup.com/products/
http://www.tolisgroup.com/about/contactus.html
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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