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Re: TAR and Linux info

From: Rodd Holman <roddholman_at_hotpop.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 06:19:43 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00568D4B.20030313061943@fatcity.com>


Just checked it:
<localhost.localdomain>:rholman:/home/rholman$ mt usage: mt [-v] [--version] [-h] [ -f device ] command [ count ] <localhost.localdomain>:rholman:/home/rholman$

This is my desktop which is RedHat 7.3. Looks as though mt is still there.

Rodd

On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 18:53, Chuck Hamilton wrote:
> 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.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 8:39 AM
>
>
> > 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...
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > 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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