On Jul 25, 2007, at 12:15, Tim Mooney wrote:

Every NetWorker volume starts with a label in a well-defined format. One can use `dd' to read a bit of the tape and determine if it's in NetWorker

format.  I've posted the dd command to do that here a couple different

times over the years, so anyone that searches the archives should be able

to determine if it's a NetWorker volume pretty quickly.

Is the label easily recognizable by something like the file(1) utility?

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