cp file from tape

[Brian Richardson]

On 24-Nov-04, at 1:16 PM, Thu Nguyen wrote:

> My backup tape has been corrupted. I used tar command
> to write the files into the tape. Is there any other
> command other than tar, or cpio I can use to copy a
> whole compressed tar file from the tape to my hard drive?

Try dd(1). However, if the tape is corrupted, then I doubt that you'll 
have any better success with it.

Brian
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