tape question

[Ben Pfaff]

Mark Szidik <szidikm@mlc.lib.mi.us> writes:

> I have an old tape made by Arcserve of an NT system that is long
> gone.  Turns out that I need to get a file back frm the tape.  I
> can read the tape to disk using dd and the raw contents look
> fine.  I don't have the software anymore, don't even remember
> what version it is.  Anybody know if there is a Linux tool that
> can read Arcserve tape formats?

If you only need one file then maybe you can just search the file
for data that looks like it and extract it manually (probably
also using dd with the skip= and bs= and count=).

Otherwise, a quick google reveals that ArcServe is available for
Linux:
	http://www.cai.com/arcserve/linux/linux_faq.htm
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