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 > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@ > googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ > group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
