view the content of tape

binuveranal · 02-26-2008, 01:29 AM

how can i view the content of tape after taking bacup to tape drive using tar

PatrickNew · 02-26-2008, 11:18 PM

Two words:

Code:

man tar

man, in his great wisdom, tells me that to view the names of the files on my tape, I should try

Code:

tar -tf /dev/tape

and to extract one of those files to do

Code:

tar -x filename -f /dev/tape

In both of these cases replace /dev/tape with your tape drive and in the second one replace filename with the name of the file you wish to extract.