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Started by Markus Kohler
Thu, 14 Jan 1999 00:00
HELP: tape experts!!!! URGENT
Author: Markus Kohler
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 00:00
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Hello, please, please help me. Otherwise I will loose important data. I have written tar files onto the tape using "cat filename > /dev/nftape". When I had written everything I checked the status with "mt -f /dev/nftape status" and indeed the data must have been written, because there were only some 114 Meg left instead of the 400Meg before. Unfortunatelly, I have forgotten to write an eof to the tape. Now, I wanted to read the tar-files from the tape and cannot get them back. The mt command always stops at the last file no 18. But this is not the last one. And I cannot get beyond this file. How can I get beyond this border line? Is there any way? I tried cat, dd etc. Nothing worked. My hardware is a PC with a seagate tapestore 3200. I use ftape 3.04d and have a 2.0.33 kernel. Please send me any any tips or hints, any ideas. Thanks!!! In advance. Markus -- Markus Kohler, Lehrstuhl VII - Grafische Systeme Fachbereich Informatik der Universitaet Dortmund e-mail: Markus.Kohler@cs.uni-dortmund.de Otto-Hahn-Str. 16, Raum E05, 44221 Dortmund Tel.: +49-2 31-7 55-61 25 Fax.: +49-2 31-7 55-63 21 ----------------------------------------------- Veilchenweg 5 Tel.: +49-72 21-98 82 31 76547 Sinzheim-Kartung Fax : +49-72 21-98 82 31
Re: HELP: tape experts!!!! URGENT
Author: Eric Lawson
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 00:00
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Markus Kohler wrote: (snip) > I have written tar files onto the tape using "cat filename > > /dev/nftape". When I had written everything I checked the status with > "mt -f /dev/nftape status" and indeed the data must have been written, > because there were only some 114 Meg left instead of the 400Meg before. (snip) > How can I get beyond this border line? Is there any way? I tried cat, dd > etc. Nothing worked. > Get to the end of the tape, tell mt to move the tape to the next block and then try to continue on. I think the command is mt -f /dev/nftape fsr Check the man page first. You may lose one block of data, but hopefully you can work around it This is about the best that I can do. Eric
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