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  TAR LTO Tape Restore

  Posted by Daniel Carew-jones on December 3, 2013 at 5:33 pm

  Hi – I hope this is the appropriate forum. I am trying to restore a TAR formatted LTO5 tape containing camera master files and created by a third party using Tolis Tape Tools. I am using an HP ULtrium 6250 LTO6 tape drive connected to an iMac with an ATTO ExpressSAS H680 card. The TAR -b value of the tape is 300 and the restore command I am trying is:

  taperead -b 153600 | tar -xvb 300 -f-

  I have changed the Terminal directory using the cd command to be an external hard drive.

  When I run the command the toplevel folder restores but not the contents so Terminal reports:

  x WDMASTER001/
  x WDMASTER001/.AppleDouble
  x WDMASTER001/.AppleDouble/.Parent

  And then returns to the cursor. In Finder the top level folder is visible but has no contents.

  I am sure I am overlooking something obvious and hoping someone can tell me where I am going wrong!

  Many thanks in advance,

  DCJ

  Daniel Carew-jones replied 12 years, 9 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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