Re: tar boo-boo...

1997-06-14 Thread Jim Pick 
> Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Since it only wrote out a few files, does anyone know if there is a
> > way to retrieve the files off the tape that weren't overwritten?
> 
> Hmm.  Given my previous experiences with tape drives, you may be out
> of luck.  When you clobbered the old file, you wrote an end of tape
> marker that the drive will probably refuse to move past (which is
> normally an excellent behavior).
> 
> The only thing I can think is to try using "mt seek" to bytes past the
> end of the tape, but I'd be surprised if the drive lets you.

It wouldn't let me - I found an easier solution.  I had previously used
the system where the old disk was going (a Win95 only system, for now) 
with the "nfsroot" package, so I just used that boot floppy, and I was 
able to mount the partition, and copy all of the files via NFS.

Thanks for the help, guys...  :-)

Cheers,

 - Jim






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Re: tar boo-boo...

1997-06-14 Thread Rob Browning 
Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Since it only wrote out a few files, does anyone know if there is a
> way to retrieve the files off the tape that weren't overwritten?

Hmm.  Given my previous experiences with tape drives, you may be out
of luck.  When you clobbered the old file, you wrote an end of tape
marker that the drive will probably refuse to move past (which is
normally an excellent behavior).

The only thing I can think is to try using "mt seek" to bytes past the
end of the tape, but I'd be surprised if the drive lets you.

-- 
Rob


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tar boo-boo...

1997-06-12 Thread Jim Pick 

This is somewhat embarassing, but I was replacing one of my hard drives
with a larger one this morning, so I backed up everything to my
SCSI DAT drive with "tar cvf /dev/nst0 /fleminga".

When the new drive was in, a meant to restore the files (tar xvf), but
I typed "tar cvf /dev/nst0 /fleminga/*" and it wrote a few files out
to the tape drive, over top of the data I meant to restore.

Since it only wrote out a few files, does anyone know if there is a
way to retrieve the files off the tape that weren't overwritten?

Cheers,

 - Jim

(I still have the data on my old hard drive, so I'm not totally
hosed - but then I'd have to re-install it)






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