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Old 07-11-2009
viewing the the contents of Tape on Solaris 10

Hi all,
i would like to view the contents of Tape on Solaris 10
i issued the following command
Code:
tar -tvf /dev/rmt/0m

i'm getting the following error
Code:
bash-3.00# tar -tvf /dev/rmt/1m
tar: tape read error

by the way the reference to the command is on sun's wiki
any alternatives
Thanks in advance
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Old 07-11-2009
# 3  
Old 07-12-2009
Thanks for your helpful reply
but it didn't help much
# 4  
Old 07-13-2009
Bug Use following commands

#ufsrestore ivf /dev/rmt/0n
then you got
ufsrestore> ls
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