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Old 08-27-2007
d3m00n d3m00n is offline
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How to reach files from tape drive using dd

Hi all!

I have problem with copying files from tape drive.

The contents of tape:
silverman# tcopy /dev/sa1

file 0: block size 10240: 21 records
file 0: eof after 21 records: 215040 bytes
file 1: block size 10240: 20712 records
file 1: eof after 20712 records: 212090880 bytes
file 2: block size 10240: 7 records
file 2: eof after 7 records: 71680 bytes
file 3: block size 10240:
file 3: eof after 44991 records: 460707840 bytes
file 4: block size 10240: 34298 records
file 4: eof after 34298 records: 351211520 bytes
file 5: block size 10240:
file 5: eof after 127911 records: 1309808640 bytes


Copy first file:
silverman# dd if=/dev/sa1 of=/tmp/1 bs=10240 count=21
Excelent first file copied.

Copy second file:
(skipping first file + mark EOF - maybe here is something wrong?)
silverman# dd if=/dev/sa1 of=/tmp/2 bs=10240 count=20712 skip=22
dd: skip reached end of input
silverman#

The size of 2 is 0.


Could you know how to reach tha second, third, etc files from tape using dd? or you have any other suggestion how to read it?

Many thanks for help!
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