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2004 Sep 03
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From OCFS to tape via tar (and back again)
...opying files from disk
to tape via tar, one file at a time. (Don't ask why. It's a legacy
script. Long story.) We're tweaking this script to use --o_direct when
tarring the file to tape and that seems to be working fine:
# tape device is /dev/nst0
$ tar --o_direct -cvf /dev/nst0 /ocfs/RMAN_test_file
./RMAN_test_file
But, to pull that same file back off tape and save it to the original
OCFS location, it seems that we cannot use --o_direct:
# skipping commands to reset the tape pointer to the proper location
$ tar --o_direct -xvf /dev/nst0
tar: /dev/nst0: Cannot open: Bad file descriptor
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