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Old 05-21-2008
Tools how to extract data from tape.
i have try tar -xvf command but it returns following error.

tar: 0511-164 There is a media read or write block size error

i have also try to copy data from tape to disk uisng tcopy command , it was succesful but still i am unable to extract data from that file on my disk.

one thing to add that i try to identify that file using an application , and that application show that it was ustar file.

can any one help me out with this..
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Old 05-22-2008
#tar xvf <source> <destination>
 
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