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From: eduardo@m2xenix.psg.com (Eduardo Salom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Help of AdvLink expert needed...
Message-ID: <1990Jun5.130241.26945@m2xenix.psg.com>
Date: 5 Jun 90 13:02:41 GMT
Sender: eduardo@m2xenix.psg.com (Eduardo Salom)
Organization: Pacific Systems Group, Portland Oregon US
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I would need *urgently* the format of the directory written by the AdvLink
backup (BrDir.Slk).  While doing a backup the disk (on the PC side) got full
and the BrDir.Slk file corrupted.  This is the file that keeps the
equivalences between the name & date of each PC backuped file and the name
given in the HP-3000 to it.  The AdvLink didn't stopped nor warned about that
problem, so that this directory was transfered to the HP-3000 and then to
tape, overwriting the previous backup.  I noticed that the directory was
corrupted while attempting the next backup.  Now I need to recover a directory
from the backup and I can't.  The files I need were rolled off the BrLog.Slk
and the DirPrint tell me that the directory is corrupted, showing only the few
first files.

I was looking into BrDir.Slk and BrLog.Slk and all the info is there but I
need to patch it to be able to use it.  The files are in compressed format so
that I can't retrieve it 'manually' and they are more than 100!!

It seems that DirPrint.Exe reads the BrDir.Slk until EOF and then read it
backwards to sort the files by name & date because the listing stops after one
of the last files in BrDir.Slk (which name starts with 'A')

I would need the file format to do a program to fix the corrupted directory.
At least to be able to patch the directory length to fool AdvLink.

NOTE: I asked for help to Support Line, they call me at first hour of the
next day and again three days after (international calls) but they couldn't
find that format.

--Eduardo/RA--
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