[TriLUG] retrieving tar backups from solaris 8mm drives

[Glenn Hennessee]

Is it the same physical drive moved to a linux box or a different drive? 
Maybe the old drive used hardware compression which the new drive 
doesn't do or software compression (tar -czvf ) was used so now you 
would need tar -tzf /dev/st0 (or whatever your tape device is). Just 
some thoughts, none guaranteed to be correct.

glenn

Doug_Newcomb at fws.gov wrote:
> I get input/output error at beginning of tape, exiting now :-(  with both
> /dev/nst0 and /dev/st0
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>>I would think tar should be tar - what happens when you do:
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>>tar tvf /dev/nst0
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>>with the dape in the drive?
>>ap
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