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# 1  
Old 12-29-2005
Backup Tape Restore?
I am trying to do a restore on a backup tape (DDS2) and am having a little trouble. For one, I dont know how the tape was made, whether is was tar, cpio, dump..etc. Anyone know how to restore a tape without knowing the format of the backup?
# 2  
Old 12-29-2005
also, im running on hp-ux B.11.00
# 3  
Old 01-01-2006
You cannot extract/restore data from a file/tape unless you know the format in which the backup was taken. Try using various utilities one by one to restore the tape.
# 4  
Old 01-06-2006
not sure if this will work but...
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IDEA:

You can use the fstyp command to find out what filesystem a device is.
Example:
# fstyp /dev/rdsk/<tape device>
ufs

You could also use a shell script like so to determine all devices in the /dev/rdsk directory:
for i in /dev/rdsk/*; do echo “$i = $(fstyp $i 2>/dev/null)”; done
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Hope this helps!
# 5  
Old 01-06-2006
why don't you try find out with the command file what type of file ( tar cpio gzipped ) this is ??
# 6  
Old 08-16-2006
any further
did the OP get anywhere with this info? i am having similar problems :-(
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