Today I started to recover a lot of old DAT tapes of an old video software. At first time I tried with IRIX Backup/Restore Manager but gave me a lot of errors due this tapes were stored with an old release of IRIX.
As you can see in this post in the Nekochan forums, the IRIX GUI system changed its own format with the different IRIX versions:
As my tapes were burn in 1996/1997 I tried with tar. And success:
With the above commands all the files in a DAT drive will be restored on the /datrest folder. Just What I needed!
As you can see in this post in the Nekochan forums, the IRIX GUI system changed its own format with the different IRIX versions:
For 6.5, the format is cpio.
For 6.3 and 6.4, the format is tar.
For 5.3-6.2, the format is bru.
As my tapes were burn in 1996/1997 I tried with tar. And success:
# mkdir /datrest
# cd /datrest
# tar xvR
With the above commands all the files in a DAT drive will be restored on the /datrest folder. Just What I needed!
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