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The below bash will untar each tar.bz2 folder in the directory, then remove the tar.bz2.
Each of the tar.bz2 folders ranges from 40-75GB and currently takes ~2 hours to extract. Is there a way to speed up the extraction process?
I am using a xeon processor with 12 cores. Thank you :).
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2. AIX
Hi,
We are taking our filesystem backup having size of 1.3 TB on LTO5 catridges using the following command
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4. AIX
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7. AIX
Hi
root@appdr01 #ls -latr
total 2887400
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drwxr-xr-x 34 root system 4096 May 06 11:34 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root system 256 May 06 12:20 .
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10. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi,
I have a backup on tape which was done by tar by someone else. How can I extract it now ? I know tar -xf for the tar file on disk but for the tar file on a tape, how should I do ?
Many thanks before.
PS : uname -a
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dds-dd(1) General Commands Manual dds-dd(1)
NAME
dds-dd - tool to read a dds device.
SYNOPSIS
dds-dd [ -f device ]
DESCRIPTION
dds-dd reads a dds tape devices (DAT). Every block is read and written to stdout. A tape with unknown block size or blocks of different
size can be read.
The default device is /dev/rmt0, which may be overridden with the environment variable TAPE, which in turn may be overridden with the
-f device option. The device must be a character special file.
OPTIONS
-f device
Device of the tape archive (default is /dev/rmt0). Must be a character special file connected to a dds tape device.
-V,--version
Print the version number of mt-dds to stderr and exit immediately.
--help print some screens of online help with examples through a pager and exit immediately.
EXAMPLES
Example: Read the tape and make a listing:
dds-dd | tar ft -
Example: Read the tape and make a listing:
dds-dd | cpio -it
ENVIRONMENT
The environment variable TAPE overrides the default tape device /dev/rmt0.
SEE ALSO
dds2tar(1), dds2index(1), mt(1), tar(1)
HISTORY
This program was created to use it in conjunction with dds2tar.
AUTHOR
J"org Weule (weule@cs.uni-duesseldorf.de), Phone +49 211 751409. This software is available at ftp.uni-duesseldorf.de:/pub/unix/apollo
2.4 dds-dd(1)