Hi,
Just a quick guess, have you tried this:
tar xvf /dev/st0 var/spool/mail/xxx
i.e. withour the leading slash '/'
Shao.
Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi
>
> Last week i made a backup of our mail server using tar. I used the
> following command:
>
> tar cvMf /dev/st0 -g /tmp/backuped /var/spool/mail
>
> The whole thing went into 3 tapes.
>
> One of our users destroyed (a.k.a. deleted) all of his messages and now
> he want's them back. I know that his mailbox lives on the second tape so
> i tried to insert the second tape and issue the following command:
>
> tar xvf /dev/st0 /var/spool/mail/xxx
>
> It told me it couldn't find the file (but with tvf it finds it). So I
> tried to insert the first tape and then issue the following command:
>
> tar xvf /dev/st0 -g /tmp/backuped /var/spool/mail/xxx
>
> and it still tell's me that it can't find the file...
>
> Can anyone give me a hint on how to recover the damn file.
>
> Thanks
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