this should do it: cpio -ucdmuv filename < /dev/tapedrive David Scott -----Original Message----- From: Alex Daniloff [mailto:alex@daniloff.com] Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 7:48 AM To: plug@northwest.com Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] How to recover a single file from the tape Hello Linux folkz, Could somebody enlighten me how to recover a single file from the tape without extraction of backed up directories. To create the tape archive I used: tar -c /dev/tapedrive /dir1 /dir2 .. and so on. I can list all backed up directories with tar -tvf. But how to recover a single file I don't know. Thank you in advance for any suggestion. Thanks. Alex -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq