tar archive overwritten

1997-09-19 Thread Marc Fleureck 
URGENT. I know this is not the wright place to ask this kind of question,
but it is a very urgent one ! My news server is down, so I try here. 
It could have happened on a linux system too ! Here's the problem 
description:

System: Unisys SMP5400, Pentium P5/EISA, Sys 5R4 (4.0.2).

Tar archive overwritten. Help ! Does this sound familiar ? We need to
extract a dump file of about 4M that is on a DAT tape, ... somewhere.
Little problem: the (backup-) tape was overwritten by the command:

  tar -cvf /dev/rmt/cd0d0 file

Maybe there is some hope of retrieving the file with known name !?

Desperate.

Regards,
Marc
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Re: tar archive overwritten

1997-09-18 Thread Jason Costomiris 
On Thu, Sep 18, 1997 at 09:44:20AM +, Marc Fleureck wrote:
: URGENT. I know this is not the wright place to ask this kind of question,
: but it is a very urgent one ! My news server is down, so I try here. 
: It could have happened on a linux system too ! Here's the problem 
: description:
: 
: System: Unisys SMP5400, Pentium P5/EISA, Sys 5R4 (4.0.2).
: 
: Tar archive overwritten. Help ! Does this sound familiar ? We need to
: extract a dump file of about 4M that is on a DAT tape, ... somewhere.
: Little problem: the (backup-) tape was overwritten by the command:
: 
:   tar -cvf /dev/rmt/cd0d0 file

Sorry, I believe you are toast.  You should have used cpio.  Then you might
have a chance.

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