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- From: grog@lemis.uucp (Greg Lehey)
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- Subject: Re: >> Need HELP recovering tar data!
- Message-ID: <2416@adagio.lemis.uucp>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 17:06:31 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.013851.9387@cypress.com>
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- In article <1993Jan26.013851.9387@cypress.com> wl@cypress.com (Wilbur Luo/COMM) writes:
- >I need some help recovering data on a tape. Here's what happened.
- >
- >A user was trying to read from a tape with tar data (and it wasn't write
- >protected), and inadvertently issues a tar cf /dev/tapeblah filea
- >command. There was no file named "filea" but it looks like the header
- >on the tape was overwritten anyway.
-
- My sympathies
-
- >We know the data is still on the tape, but it's inaccessible. I tried
- >mt, dd, tarx,etc.. and tried to forward over the bad stuff and dump the
- >data to no avail.
- >
- >Does anyone know how to recover the data or point me to a program that
- >will?
-
- In all likelihood, your first file (maybe more) is gone forever. But
- GNU tar should recover the rest straight out of the box:
-
- tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive.
- tar: Skipping to next file header...
-
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