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Old 04-16-2009, 03:44 AM   #1
Berris.Oliver
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Question Extracting particular files on a tar from a tape


Let's say that we have files archived / stored in the tape (refers to tapes like LTO and DTL) as shown below, where the first 2 digits before the dash is your camera id, the 2 digits after the dash represents the hour, the next 2 digits for the minutes and the last 2 digits for the seconds:

data1/01-100000.mp3
data1/01-100000.mpg
data1/01-100100.mp3
data1/01-100100.mpg
...
data1/04-105900.mp3
data1/04-105900.mpg

Here's the case of this thread, what if I want to extract a range (say from 10:30 up to 10:55 of camera id 2) that will be coming from a tape in the Tape Archive and by getting it in one pass (or executing the tar command just once)?

Here's the command I'm currently using but this one extracts the archive in the tape until it reaches an end of file and then places it in a directory named multimedia:

tar -C multimedia -xvpf /dev/nst0 data1

So if I use this, I have to remove the files not needed and retain the files with the time range & camera specified. Doing that isn't efficient at all since you use up disk space and waste time. What will be the command for this case? If I get the .mpg file, I should also get the .mp3 file.

Last edited by Berris.Oliver; 04-16-2009 at 03:50 AM.
 
Old 04-16-2009, 03:57 AM   #2
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Have you tried something like

tar -C multimedia -xvpf /dev/nst0 data1/02-103???.mpg data1/02-104???.mpg data1/02-105???.mpg

and just trimmed the ones post 55?

Edit - just noticed there's a mix of mpg and mp3 files, so you'd need to add the mp3's as well
 
Old 04-16-2009, 04:04 AM   #3
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My wild guess is that you should be able to do something like

Code:
echo $(seq -f "data1/02-10%02.0f00.mp" 30 55)|awk '{for(i=1;i<=NF; i++){printf "%s3 %sg", $i, $i}}'| xargs tar -C multimedia -xvpf /dev/nst0
Completely untested; but the bit from echo to the second pipe
should produce a list of the files you asked for?



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