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From: stevem@katmandu.Solbourne.COM (Stephen Matson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Damaged TAR tape
Message-ID: <1990Feb13.171717.2902@Solbourne.COM>
Date: 13 Feb 90 17:17:17 GMT
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   OK, Ok, I know.

     I should have put the write protect on, but I did not. And I 
     should have made more backup tapes, but I did not.Now after
     I typed "tar -cvf" instead of "tar -xvf" I've lost some very
     valuable data. The tape went just long enough to erase the header
     and put an end of file marker at the start of the tape. I know
     the data I need is at the end, untouched ( I think). 

     Is there any way to recover the last half of the tape ?
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