Reading the Contents of a Dump Tape

kaplan71 · 10-24-2006, 09:10 AM

Hi there --

I ran a dump of several filesystems to tape, and I would like to read the contents of it. What command would I use to read the tape? Thanks.

jailbait · 10-24-2006, 03:19 PM

"What command would I use to read the tape?"

That depends on how the tape is formatted. What command (exactly) did you use to create the tape?

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Steve Stites

copperfox · 11-08-2006, 02:34 PM

try:

restore -i /dev/st0

-i is interactive mode, in which you can look at the tape contents

do a man restore and look under -i for more details