Howard, the SCO curse is upon you.  May you prevail in the face of
incredible odds.


On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote:

> Oh this is going to be fun.
>
> Customer [ was | is ] all set to replace antique gear and versions of our
> software.  The day before their data T1 got installed by which we could
> provide them Software as a Service in place of their on-site server, said
> server gasped its last breath.
>
> Sent the hard disk to a data recovery firm.  Heads crashed on media; they
> tried their ministrations but no dice.
>
> I have a set of backup tapes that I am trying to read.
>
> Oh, did I tell you that the incumbent OS is SCO Openserver 5 and that my
> colleagues don't remember if they used cpio or tar to generate backups?
>
> When I attempt to dd data off of backup tapes, I get an immediate stop, no
> records read.
>
> I have found a program on SourceForge called Safecopy that seems to read
> past that first halt.  But Lord knows what random bits I have read to
> disk...
>
> Any data forensics folks in the crowd?  Where the fire do I start?
>
> Howard
>
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