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From: pvo@uther.CS.ORST.EDU (Paul V O'Neill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Need HELP recovering files from tar damage
Keywords: tar corrupt file
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Date: 16 Jul 89 03:32:56 GMT
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In article <18567@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>
>   [lots of good stuff], ..... especially ...
>
>...similar programs (likewise lighter-than-net), which you can use to
>recover most of your data......

Keep in mind that if you made the c/x error while at BOT, or anywhere on
track 1 of a QIC tape, that the drive turned on it's FULL WIDTH erase head
as it was writing to track 1 and also wiped anything you had further on
down the line in tracks 2 - 9.

  :-|   Have a day.



Paul O'Neill                 pvo@oce.orst.edu
Coastal Imaging Lab
OSU--Oceanography
Corvallis, OR  97331         503-737-3251