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

Start with the 'file' utility.  It reads the first few bytes of the
file to tell you what's stored on the media.

-- 
Tilghman

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