I have some sequential access SCSI tape drives that are supported in Linux. I can access the devices and everything seems to work fine. My question is, is there a way to copy the tape without actually mounting the file system on the tape? When I do a dd on the device it just outputs the first 512 bytes, what looks like a tape header. How would I access the raw data beyond this point? Is there a utility that could do it for me? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Tape drive under linux question
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How did the data get onto the tape? That will depend on the format the data is stored in. Was it tar? or a backup package. If it was a backup package it could be tar, cpio, or some proprietary format.
To be able to get the data, you need to know how it got on there.
You can try this.
tar -vtf /dev/nst0. See if anything happens.
That will do a verbose test, to see if tar can see any data. If you get output like a filesystem. Then you can use tar to retrieve the data.
To be able to get the data, you need to know how it got on there.
You can try this.
tar -vtf /dev/nst0. See if anything happens.
That will do a verbose test, to see if tar can see any data. If you get output like a filesystem. Then you can use tar to retrieve the data.
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