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Subject: Re: tape format
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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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