Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!stubby!danny
From: danny@stubby.UUCP (Danny Tsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Damaged TAR tape
Message-ID: <145@stubby.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 90 14:51:51 GMT
References: <1990Feb13.171717.2902@Solbourne.COM>
Organization: Digital Analysis Corp., Reston, VA
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In article <1990Feb13.171717.2902@Solbourne.COM>, stevem@katmandu.Solbourne.COM (Stephen Matson) writes:
> 
>      I typed "tar -cvf" instead of "tar -xvf" I've lost some very
> 
>      Is there any way to recover the last half of the tape ?
I have done this before that I used dd to dump the whole tape and used a 
binary editor to get rid of the junk stuff.  Hope this help you.