Retrieving MOV files from LTO4 archive tapes
 

Hi Everyone

Forgive me if this is the wrong place to ask this or its a daft question but I'm a newbie in terms of Linux.

I am trying to retrieve some MOV files off an LTO4 tape written by a XENDATA Archive System.

I have followed the instructions on the Xendata White Paper at http://www.xendata.com/Assets_White_...r%20format.pdf and can get the files off the tape.

But as Xendata use a modified version of POSIX tar the files are coming off the tape in there fragmented state.

Can anyone suggest how I can retrieve the "complete" MOV file by perhaps modifying the command line I'm using at present which is
tar —blocking-factor=128 -xf /dev/tape/by-path/pci??????

???? is a unique id assigned on os creation..

Thanks
Geoff

suppose you have the files f1, f2, f3 and f4 and you want to make one big file out of them:

cat f? >fbig

will do the trick