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The tape was created on SCO and I am using unixware now. &nbsp;I tried using <br />
tar -xvAf /dev/rmt/ctape1 DATA, and it is super slow.... 
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The tape was created on SCO and I am using unixware now.  I tried using
tar -xvAf /dev/rmt/ctape1 DATA, and it is super slow....

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I guess you just need to use the proper blocksize ...
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I guess you just need to use the proper blocksize ...

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How can I figure out what he block size is suppose to be? 
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How can I figure out what he block size is suppose to be?

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How can I restore a tape using cpio that may have been created with tar. currently I use this command to restore cpio tapes<br />
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cpio -icvduC32768 -I/dev/rmt/ctape1 &quot;DATA/*&quot; , but this does not work on the tar tape. <br />
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thanks <br />
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How can I restore a tape using cpio that may have been created with tar. currently I use this command to restore cpio tapes

cpio -icvduC32768 -I/dev/rmt/ctape1 "DATA/*" , but this does not work on the tar tape. 

thanks 



Restore tar using CPIO

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