Re: Please tell me this is curable...
im no data recovery expert but chances are good that the files are gone,
tar doesnt have good(if any) file recover capabilities .. gzip does but
recovering data from a gzip file is a long and boring process, usually it
just writes the blocks of data to individual files leaving it up to you to
sort it out..which can be VERY complicated
if the data is _that_ important, and nobody else on the list can help it
may be possible to contact a commercial agency to assist in the recovery
of the data(costs could go into the thousands easy though)
nate
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Patrick wrote:
patric >On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 02:16:38PM -0800, aphro wrote:
patric >> try using the command:
patric >>
patric >> file <filename>
patric >>
patric >> to determine what kind of file it is..
patric >>
patric >> it may be curropted..
patric >
patric >Thanks. The big q is what's the recovery procedure?
patric >>
patric >> nate
patric >>
patric >> On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Patrick wrote:
patric >>
patric >> patric >Over the weekend, I took my trusty server which had multiple partitions and swap files for RH, SuSE, NT and Debian and turned the whole thing over to Debian.
patric >> patric >
patric >> patric >Naturally, I backed up 4 Gigs of data first using tar czvf. Did a few tests and all seemed to work as tar xzvf recreated the files.
patric >> patric >
patric >> patric >Now its not working as when I ftp the data in from NT, I get this:
patric >> patric >
patric >> patric >atrick@enterprise:~$ tar xzvf datstore
patric >> patric >tar: This does not look like a tar archive
patric >> patric >tar: Skipping to next header
patric >> patric >
patric >> patric >gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
patric >> patric >tar: Child returned status 1
patric >> patric >tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
patric >> patric >patrick@enterprise:~$
patric >> patric >
patric >> patric >
patric >> patric >There's several thousand important files at stake here...can anyone tell me how to recover them?
patric >> patric >
patric >> patric >Please...
patric >> patric >
patric >> patric >Patrick
patric >> patric >
patric >> patric >
patric >> patric >
patric >> patric >
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