Solaris

I am new to using a tape drive in Solaris 10.
Our tape drive is working fine but what I was wondering is this.

If I back up 10 files a day for 10 days that is 100 files and I want to restore a file that I backed up on Tuesday of that week. How do I find that file on the tape drive with out having to rewind to the beginning and type tar tvf /dev/rmt/0n ?

Let's say you do a ufsdump of /, /usr, /export, /opt to a single tape.

To restore a file xxx from /export/home, you would load the tape into the tape drive (write-protected) and issue commands in order (your tape device may be different):
# mt -f /dev/rmt/1n 2 fsf
# ufsrestore -ivf /dev/rmt/1n
ufsrestore> cd home
ufsrestore> add xxx
ufsrestore> extract

You can also use the what command inside the ufsrestore interactive to insure you are on the correct dump file and ls to show the files in the 'directory'.

thanks for the information. I am using the tar commands

Hope this helps tar - restore a file