Re: tlug: Not Linux but a UNIX hardware problem

["Andrew S. Howell" <andy@example.com>]

>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Gutteridge <dave@example.com> writes:

    Dave> Is there any kind of command or alteration I can do to
    Dave> convince the machine to read everything it can off of the
    Dave> tape and skip errors instead of just having it keel over and
    Dave> die at the first sign of trouble?

You might try "dd" to read the raw data off the tape. It will probably suffer
the same problem, but it worth a try. You would do something like:

	dd if=/my/tape/device of=/big/disk/to/hold/very-important-dump

Then you just use restore from the dump image on disk.

I've found that DAT=drat. As in "drat, it lost my data again" 

HTH,

	Andy
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