On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 08:36:06AM +0200, Marco Carcano wrote: > Dear Debra > > thank for your reply > > I'm trying to do what you suggested - I'll tell you how it will end > (it will take a while since the file size is 35 GB and we are coping > at 32K blocks) > > however before doing what you suggested I also tried the following > command > > dd if=backup of=recovery.txt bs=32k count=1 > > just to extract the first page to see if it contains recovery > instructions, ... I only got binary garbage - so I think that > amfetchdump will automatically remove the first page from any part > of the backup (I defined part-size of 1500 mbyte in order to have > 10% of the virtual tape size) > You might try the file command to see what the contents are.
$ file recovery.txt -- Jon H. LaBadie [email protected] 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (609) 477-8330 (C)
