> Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com> 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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