tape listing

[ajay]

hi gurus

i try to list my tape hp 40gb (under compression)

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[root at tivimtech ajay]# tar vft /dev/st0
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers

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it do not list anything and gives this error and comes out.
is there any way i can mount it, if yes what is mount type ?

i use this command to backup:
i am very sure it does backup as i checked date against backup.log 
it changes everyday and shows latest date time as supposed. 

# Daily Backup on the Dat
tar cvfz /dev/st0 /home /data /etc /var/spool/mail /var/www >/var/log/backup.log &

It is scheduled in cron.

here is some part of this log.....

 UW PICO(tm) 4.2                    File: /var/log/backup.log


home/
home/niteen/
home/niteen/.bash_history
home/niteen/.addressbook
home/niteen/.addressbook.lu
home/niteen/.bash_logout
home/niteen/.bash_profile
home/niteen/.bashrc
home/niteen/.canna
home/niteen/.emacs
home/niteen/.esd_auth
home/niteen/.fetchmailrc
home/niteen/.fonts.cache-1
home/niteen/.gtkrc
home/niteen/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2
home/niteen/.ICEauthority
home/niteen/.mailboxlist
home/niteen/.pinerc
home/niteen/.recently-used
home/niteen/.rhn-applet.conf
home/niteen/.viminfo

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I am confussed why it says "This does not look like a tar archive" ??


help me from this dilemma !!!

thanks and regards


ajay
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