Re: Data recovery from corrupted tapes

On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 07:36:30PM -0500, Pete Gonzalez wrote:
> At 01:05 PM 12/27/2002, you wrote:
> 
> But, if e.g. I type:
> 
>         cat /dev/zftape > data
> 
> Won't it automatically rewind to the beginning of the tape?
> Is there a way to just dump bytes to a file, ignoring errors?

I don't know about zftape, but with scsi tape i can position the tape
on specific record(not necesarry on the beginning of the file) and read
the rest with e.g. "dd if=/dev/tapes/tape0/mtn of=/tmp/out bs=512". That is
scsi tape specific. ..tape0/mtn is device that does _not_ rewind the tape
when operation ends.

But then again, i don't know about ftape devices..i have one but no tape
cartridge for it :(

-- 

With best regards,

		Boris B.
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