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To list the contents of the tape to stdout (may want to filter it!):
 tar -ztvf /dev/st0
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

PD


On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Buddrige, David wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a backup tape on which are some files that I want to extract.  My
> problem is that
> a) I am not certain of the exact file-name and path of the files that I want
> to extract, and
> b) when it is uncompressed the files on the tape come to > 16 Gigabytes.
> c) I don't know exactly how to mount a tape and to subsequently extract the
> files.
>
> So far, we tried the command:
>
> cp /dev/st0 /tmp/storage.tgz
>
> However, this filled the hard-drive up once it had extracted 16 Gigabytes.
>
> What I really want to do is to search through the contents of the tape to
> see what file-names are there, and then specifically choose to extract only
> those files that I actually want off the tape.  Does anyone know how to do
> this?
>
> thanks
>
> David Buddrige.
>
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