"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Has anyone tried recovering damaged .tar.bz2 files? Any success / > > failure?
I'd also like to know about this. > > (By the way, there is also afio, which is a command-line tool like tar > > but compresses one file at a time. The format, of course, isn't > > compatible with tar, and afio isn't as widely available on rescue > > disks, other Unices, and such.) Using it here. No problems yet, though it would be nice to have a "self-booting, fully automatic recovery solution." I mean, one that's *free*. > I've also used "dump" on a lot of Unix systems. Unfortunately the last > time I tried the GNU/Linux version it wouldn't back up FAT partitions > and so wasn't suited to my needs. Dump on Linux is specific to the ext2 filesystem. :-( I'd try it, but I'm using reiserfs on one partition. This came over the reiserfs mailing list a couple times in the last few weeks. It fits nicely into this topic: http://reality.sgi.com/zwicky_neu/testdump.doc.html Jesse -- For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. http://members.home.net/jmjacobsen1/glc/
