\[ \newcommand{\complexI}{\mathbf{i}} \newcommand{\imaginaryI}{\mathbf{i}} \newcommand{\cis}{\operatorname{cis}} \newcommand{\vecu}{\mathbf{u}} \newcommand{\vecv}{\mathbf{v}} \newcommand{\vecw}{\mathbf{w}} \newcommand{\vecx}{\mathbf{x}} \newcommand{\vecy}{\mathbf{y}} \newcommand{\vecz}{\mathbf{z}} \]

Tape Dumped Tarball May 2026

# Read from tape device, write to a .tar file dd if=/dev/st0 of=old_backup.tar bs=64k restore -f /dev/st0 -r # extracts dump tar cf recovered_data.tar ./restored_files/