Good idea! File utility would recognize the tar magic number.
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Tilghman Lesher <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > > -- > -- > 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. > -- -- 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.
