01-17-2008
Got it
I managed to figure it out. After creating the tape directory and trying a few different combinations of the switches I finally got it with using wildcards.
cpio -AvicdumkB -I/dev/rct0 u/prd*/MUMPS*
Mumps is the name of the file and it's extension is .DAT in the prd directory but it's .EXT in each subsequent directory so cpio will play nice with the wilcard.
Many thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I fear I would have been pulling my hair out trying to figure this out.
Hnelson
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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
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