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help in retrieving data - Aug. 12, '06, 6:36:13 PM

cgfin

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Looking for help in retrieving some data off of an 8mm tape drive.

The data is stored on a 8mm tape drive that uses 80Gbyte tapes, it is a Exabyte tape drive. The individual files are very large, around 5 Gbytes.

Anyway, the data was tar'ed with gnu tar on an SGI machinge using the command

tar --record-size=204800 -cvf /dev/tape0

any suggestions how to retrieve it from a PC running XP with SFU tools?

much obliged for any suggestions,

Charles

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RE: help in retrieving data - Aug. 13, '06, 5:05:08 AM

Rodney

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Have you tried attaching the Exabyte to the box running SFU/Interix?

Within Interix you have access to the tape drives as /dev/tape[0-9].
Interix comes with tar that will access these devices.

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RE: help in retrieving data - Aug. 13, '06, 11:39:12 AM

cgfin

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Yes,

I have an Exabyte atached to my box running SFU/Interix, but the Interix tar doesn't seem to support this record-size field, unless it is something else that is choking. It seems to be talking to the tape drive OK, but no luck extracting the table of contents either. I guess I could try and install the gnu tar and try that, I was just wondering if anyone might suggest an alternative route using pax or dd that might work. PS, I'm an inexperienced unix driver.

thanks,

Charles

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