[Gllug] Slurp an entire tape to file with dd

[John Hearns]

On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 16:42 +0100, Tom Schutzer-Weissmann wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We're having a *lot* of fun trying to restore some backup tapes made
> with Veritas 8.6. The rant potential is considerable...
> 
> I would like to transfer the entire 40GB of tape to a file, and so tried
> this in Knoppix:
> 
> 	dd if=/dev/nst0 of=/mnt/myusbdisk bs=128k
> 
Probably bad advice from me, as I haven't done anything like this for
yonks, but I dimly remember having to skip an EOF with doing similar
with tapes.

Use mt fsf 1 to skip one EOF. 

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