RE: Using star and fsr

Did anyone have any thoughts on what I might have done wrong?  Restoring
a 10k file at the tail end of an archive on my DLT1 drive can take 3
hours.  It only takes 5 minutes to seek to the spot I need to get it (if
it worked).
 
Thanks!
Wayne.

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Buttles, Wayne
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 3:40 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Star-users] Using star and fsr


The man page for star alludes to being able to start from a place other
than the beginning of the archive using "mt fsr blockno".  I have tried
a number of combinations and they all end with an error:
 
mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
mt -f /dev/nst0 fsr 1
star -v -x f=/dev/nst0 *
 
star: Unknown archive type (neither tar, nor bar/cpio).
 
Has anyone else had this work and can tell me where I am going wrong?  I
used to use this with tar.
 
 star 1.5a08
 RedHat AS3
 Both HP DLT1 and Certance LTO2
 
Thanks,
Wayne.