Reading dump tapes

2007-12-25 10:34:00

Problem : I wanted to read old dump tapes with multiple dumps. I tried to do

something like restore ; what ; mt fsf; . . . but I had problems with this

approach. I could make it work by doing restore; mt rewind; restore skip etc.

but this is slow. Some people suggested using mt's asf option which might well

have done the trick but the bouquet goes to Dave Mitchell of Fretwell-Downing

Data Systems <davem@fdgroup.co.uk> who supplied a C program which does exactly

what I want and is much faster than my scripted restore solution. As is my

practice, I won't post the code to save everyone's bandwidth, but if anyone wants

it please mail me - I'll collect the requests and mail the code to those who are

interested.

Kindest regards,

Niall O Broin

UNIX Network Administrator nobroin@esoc.esa.de

Ground Systems Engineering Department Ph./Fax +49 6151 90 3619/2179

European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany

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