Ignite - How to recover a single file from a Ignite tape?

terça-feira, 20 de março de 2012

First of all you have to skip the tape header:

It's different for each platform:

If you have Itanium..

# mt fsf 22

Or PA-RISC:

# mt fsf 1

Now use the tar command to recover the file. We are recovering the OLDsyslog in our example.

# tar -xvf /dev/rmt/0mn var/adm/syslog/OLDsyslog.log

If you are not using the /dev/rmt/0mn you have to specify in the mt command.