[plug] restoring from tape

[Buddrige, David]

thanks heaps guys. 8-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Ringer [mailto:craig at postnewspapers.com.au]
> Sent: Thursday, 1 August 2002 1:08 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] restoring from tape
> 
> 
> > To list the contents of the tape to stdout (may want to filter it!):
> >  tar -ztvf /dev/st0
> 
> Tip: if you know its in a given subdirectory or whatever, you can
> tar tvzf /dev/st0 mysubdir/
> and it'll only list the contents of that subdirectory.
> 
> > To then restore a file to the pwd once you know its 
> name/path in the tape
> > archive:
> >  tar -xzvf /dev/st0 path/to/file
> 
> Though you may well need to drop the z from the arguments if 
> you don't 
> compress the data going onto the tape. I use DDS2 and haven't 
> found it 
> to make a difference whether or not I do compresison in 
> software, since 
> the drive does some pretty powerful hardware-driven data compression 
> anyway - and not compressing saves on CPU time and leads to a faster 
> backup, at least in my case.
> 
> -- 
> Craig Ringer
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