Hi
I am using a tar command to take my 5 gb data backup on Hp dat drive. I am using tar -zcvf /dev/st0 directories to take backup For restoring tar -zxvf /dev/st0 directories to take retore it It is taking lot of time to restore the files .I think when i am tring to restore any file it serially reads all files prior to files i want to take backup so it is taking time to restore it. Is there any command by which i can tell dat to automatically get forward to location of file which I want to take back & restore it. Rgds girish
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