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Date:      Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:10:29 -0700
From:      Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tape format
Message-ID:  <20081025011029.GB22916@ayn.mi.celestial.com>
In-Reply-To: <012301c9363b$66ab6a10$34023e30$@com>
References:  <012301c9363b$66ab6a10$34023e30$@com>

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On Fri, Oct 24, 2008, Ansar Mohammed wrote:
>Hello all
>
>Does anyone know if the tape format produced by Seagate backup is
>documented?

You might get a hint using ``file /dev/tapedevice'' which should
show if it's a tar, cpio, or whatever archive.

Bill
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