Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: "Bad" backups Message-ID: Date: 12 Nov 90 15:31:43 GMT References: <1990Nov10.185429.2486@morrow.stanford.edu> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 9 I would suggest reading the tapes into a spare disk or partition, removing the offending file, and writing them out again onto a new tape. After this has completed and been verified, erase the original tapes. It's interesting to note that USENIX sent out a tape that had inadvertantly contained copyrighted materials. They sent out a note later on requesting that this operation be done. It's not so exotic, unless you're disk poor and have a backwards backup system (like some MS-DOS ones) that don't allow easy creation of backup format tapes. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com