Hi,If you just want to look at the contents of the tape, try:
I got the below error message on doing a "tar -zxvf /dev/st0", ran it to check status of files, file sizes, directory structure that's backed up on SCSI tape drive.
Any idea what the problem is? Thanks for any ideas.
[root@www tmp]# tar -zxvf /dev/st0 tar (child): /dev/st0: Cannot read: Cannot allocate memory tar (child): At beginning of tape, quitting now tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors [root@www tmp]#
tar tvf /dev/st0
The z is used to uncompress files that are tarred and zipped, and I'm not sure the z option here is valid for a tape device. The x option tries to extract the archive, whereas the t will just list the contents.
What OS was used to create the tape?
Are you sure tar was used to store it to tape?
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