Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 23:25:18 -0500 (CDT) From: "Lee Crites (AEI)" <leec@adam.adonai.net> To: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@giovannelli.it> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a c at the place of x (tar error) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970902232125.10654A-100000@adam.adonai.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970902224720.007e6b50@giovannelli.it>
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On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: =>I have done an error with a tape with a tar backup on it. =>I want to restore a lot of data but instead of the x (xzv) I used the c =>(czv) as option ... =>Now I am not able to restore anything from this tape even if I suddenly =>break the wrong command... (so a lot of data are still on the tape..). May =>I do something to recover at least some files ? => =>Thanks for attention... I used a company once (about three years ago) which was able to recover what was left of the old tar backup sans the already overwritten portion. It cost me, as I recall, about $6,000 for the tape. I have not found another way of doing it. Of course, I have never made that mistake again... Lee
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