Restoring Files From A Data Cassette To Your System; Listing The Files On A Data Cassette - HP Visualize J5000 Owner's Manual

Restoring Files from a Data Cassette to Your System

Use the following instructions to restore files from a data cassette to your
system:
1. Load the data cassette into the tape drive.
2. In a terminal window, use cd to change to the directory in which you
want the restored files to reside. (This only works if the tape archive
was created using relative pathnames; if absolute pathnames were
used, the files from the tape will be placed back into their original
locations.)
3. Enter the following command line to restore data:
tar -xvf /dev/rmt/ devicefile pathname
where devicefile is one of the device files listed from sam and
pathname is the pathname of the file or directory containing files
that you want to restore from the tape. If pathname is not specified,
everything on the data cassette is restored. If the tape was made
using data compression, use one of the device file names that sam
listed as supporting compression.

Listing the Files on a Data Cassette

Use the following instructions to list the files on a data cassette:
1. Load the data cassette into the tape drive.
2. In a terminal window, enter the following command line to receive a
file listing of the data cassette:
tar -tvf /dev/rmt/ devicefile
where devicefile is one of the device files listed from sam. If the tape
was made with data compression, use one of the device file names
that sam listed as supporting compression.
Chapter 5
Using Your Digital Data Storage (DDS) Tape Drive
Operating the DDS Tape Drive
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