Reading 9-track tapes in Linux

[Curt at Atari Museum]

Sallem,

    What kind of backups are they?     Are they perhaps BSD Linux using 
the level0 backup method?   What version of Linux are you currently 
running to do tape backup/restores?  If it is a level0 (I'm rusting, so 
someone correct me if I'm mistaken)

restore -i should put you into interactive mode
there you can do a directory of contents of the tape and if you are 
looking to restore all the contents I think its restore -r * (make sure 
you are in the destination directory before running that as all contents 
will be copied into the directory you are in when you run that command)

Depending on your linux, you may have to patch it to include the restore 
command as some instances of linux are no longer including it which I've 
seen with Mandrake and Turbo Linux.    Last time I checked version 8 and 
think 9 of Redhat still had the command included.


Curt


Vintage Computer Festival wrote:

>Ok, it seems everytime I try to do something, there has to be about 96
>unproductive hours filled with failed attempts to do even the simplest
>things, like installing Linux for example.
>
>I'll spare everyone the lame details, suffice it to say that, now that
>everything is hooked up, I have been unable to successfully read a 9-track
>tape.
>
>I can certainly get the tape to do stuff like forward through files,
>rewind, get the status, etc. using mt.  That much works.
>
>However, if I try to READ a file, and I've tried this with dd and Eric
>Smith's tapedump utility and whatnot, it always returns with 0 files read.
>It apparently sees the file marks as it will say its reading file 1, file
>2, etc., but it never actually dumps anything.
>
>I've tried the multiple tapes at multiple densities and they are tapes
>I've read before on another system.
>
>WTF???
>
>  
>


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