Reading tape contents

[Kevin_107]

I have just been handed a DLT tape and asked what is on it...I have tried tar and frecover..I am getting a read error with Tar and not a fbackup header...is there anyway of listing a tape's contents if you do not know how the contents of the tape were backed up

[Bill McNAMARA_1 · Accepted solution]

try swinstall
alternatively, if you've got disk space!!. convert to file:
# dd if=/dev/rmt/0mn of=bootfile bs=2k
# dd if=/dev/rmt/0m of=sdfile bs=10k

Later,
Bill

[ZEISS]

Hello

make a more or cat on the devicefile ...

[RAC_1]

use dd command
dd if=/dev/rmt/0m of=file1 bs=10k

Say file file1 that will give you what that file is.

Regards,

[Jean-Louis Phelix]

hi,

You've forgotten cpio ... You could also try pax (nice tool which reads tar AND cpio, and helps relocating absolute pathes with pattern matching substitutions.

Regards.

[Leif Halvarsson_2]

Hi,
cpio or ftio can be a chance, try:
cpio -ivt
ftio -gv

But, it is possible the tape is created with a backup application. In this case it is not possible to read the tape without the application which created it.

[Chuck J]

Kevin

I guess you already tried:

# tar -tvf /dev/rmt/0m

Chuck J