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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcrware!troyf
- From: troyf@microware.com (Troy Frericks)
- Subject: >>TAR file on tape distroyed, are files recoverable?<<
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.184320.5998@microware.com>
- Sender: news@microware.com
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- Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:43:20 GMT
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- I have a tape that contained a large 'tar' file. The data is not
- replaceable. The data that is needed is at the end of the tar
- file, but it is inaccessable because the wrong parameter was
- passed to tar when attempting to retrieve it. The 'c' for
- create, rather than 'x' for eXtract was passed, which caused
- tar to write a tiny tar file over the beginning of the
- larger one.
-
- Any hints on how to retrieve files from a large tar file once
- the beginning of the tar file has been distroyed?
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