No mt? It used to have it. I can't remember what version (circa 1995) I used
to run at home on my old tape-equipped PC, but I used mt all the time with
it.
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To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
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> The "man" page for the Linux "tar" command mentions a
"--ignore-failed-read"
> option. Is that what you're looking for? The "ftp" command isn't usually
> used with tape drives...
>
> Kind of upsetting that Linux doesn't seem to have the trusty old "mt"
> program, which allowed all kinds of magtape manipulation...
>
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> To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 5:48 AM
>
>
> > List,
> >
> > OS RedHat 7.3
> > Oeacle 8.1.7 rel3
> > I have had a disk failure on my test box and a datafile needs to be
> > recovered from my tape backup. The tape contains 6 large datafiles and I
> > get errors after reading the first one.
> > Does anyone know the linux FTP option to --ignore-read-errors? The man
> > command does not list it. I feel that there might be a bad section of
> > tape and I would like to skip it until the next file header.
> > I am in the process of exporting the data by month from the production
> > server to reload into a recreated datafile if I can't get the tape to
> > work. I would prefer to use the tape restore because the data needed is
> > 3 GIG and will take a long time to exp/imp.
> > I guess this is what you get when you use scrounged equipment to make
> > a test box to improve your knowledge. It also tests your backup/restore
> > equipment.
> > Thanks,
> > Ron
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