Re: tar archive overwritten
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>
Sorry, I believe you are toast. You should have used cpio. Then you might
have a chance.
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