HP C240 - Manual (Page 74)

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Using Your Digital Data Storage (DDS) Tape Drive
Operating the DDS Tape Drive
Restoring Files from a Data Cassette to Your System
Use the following instructions to restore files from a data cassette to your
system:
1 Load the data cassette into the tape drive.
2 In a terminal window, use cd to change to the directory you want the files to reside
in.
3 Enter the following command line to restore data:
tar -xvf /dev/rmt/devicefile pathname
where devicefile is one of the device files listed from sam and pathname is the
pathname of the file or directory containing files that you want to restore from
the tape. If pathname is not specified, everything on the data cassette is restored.
If the tape was made using data compression, use one of the device file names
that sam listed as supporting compression.
Listing the Files on a Data Cassette
Use the following instructions to list the files on a data cassette:
1 Load the data cassette into the tape drive.
2 In a terminal window, enter the following command line to receive a file listing
of the data cassette:
tar -tvf /dev/rmt/devicefile
where devicefile is one of the device files listed from sam. If the tape was made
with data compression, use one of the device file names that sam listed as sup-
porting compression.