On Thu, Sep 18, 1997 at 09:44:20AM +0000, 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>
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