From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 2 23:05:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA20636 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 23:05:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thor.i-connect.net (qmailr@thor.i-Connect.Net [206.190.143.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA20627 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 23:05:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 25369 invoked by uid 4028); 3 Sep 1997 06:05:31 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.5-alpha [p0] on Linux Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 22:59:05 -0700 (PDT) From: ron@cts.com To: "Lee Crites \(AEI\)" Subject: Re: a c at the place of x (tar error) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Seems like most are missing an important point. The tape was compressed and the header that allows it to be decompressed is gone. The best approach is to think of this as a learning experience; write protect the tape. On 03-Sep-97 "Lee Crites (AEI)" wrote: >>On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > >=>I have done an error with a tape with a tar backup on it. >=>I want to restore a lot of data but instead of the x (xzv) I used the c >=>(czv) as option ... >=>Now I am not able to restore anything from this tape even if I suddenly >=>break the wrong command... (so a lot of data are still on the tape..). May >=>I do something to recover at least some files ? >=> >=>Thanks for attention... > >I used a company once (about three years ago) which was able to recover >what was left of the old tar backup sans the already overwritten >portion. It cost me, as I recall, about $6,000 for the tape. I have >not found another way of doing it. Of course, I have never made that >mistake again... > >Lee > ---------------------------------- E-Mail: ron@cts.com Date: 09/02/97 Time: 22:59:05 This message was sent by XF-Mail ----------------------------------