Re: HOW to COpy Multiple Files from Tape To Hard Disk. Solaris 10

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:59:33 -0700, KatiaFrye@xxxxxxxxx
<KatiaFrye@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am trying to copy various Tapes with Mulitple files on them. Does
anyone have a script to copy multiple filrs from tape to Hard Disk?

Normally you would make use of tar to extract files stored on tapes.

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