RE: [Beowulf] OT: recoverable optical media archive format?

2010-06-10 Thread Lux, Jim (337C)
> -Original Message- > From: beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org] On > Behalf Of David N. Lombard > Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 3:12 PM > To: David Mathog > Cc: beowulf@beowulf.org > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] OT: recoverable optical media archive format? > > >

Re: [Beowulf] OT: recoverable optical media archive format?

2010-06-10 Thread David N. Lombard
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:20:39PM -0700, David Mathog wrote: > Jesse Becker and others suggested: > > > http://users.softlab.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/rsbep.html > > I tried it and it works, mostly, but definitely has some warts. > > To start with I gave it a negative control - a file so badly corrup

Re: [Beowulf] OT: recoverable optical media archive format?

2010-06-10 Thread David Mathog
Jesse Becker and others suggested: > http://users.softlab.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/rsbep.html I tried it and it works, mostly, but definitely has some warts. To start with I gave it a negative control - a file so badly corrupted it should NOT have been able to recover it. % ssh remotePC 'dd if=/dev/

Re: [Beowulf] OT: recoverable optical media archive format?

2010-06-10 Thread Scott Atchley
On Jun 10, 2010, at 3:20 PM, David Mathog wrote: > Jesse Becker and others suggested: > >>http://users.softlab.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/rsbep.html > > I tried it and it works, mostly, but definitely has some warts. > > To start with I gave it a negative control - a file so badly corrupted > it shoul

Re: [Beowulf] OT: recoverable optical media archive format?

2010-06-10 Thread David Mathog
Scott Atchley wrote: > I have never used this tool, but I would wonder if your pockmark tool damaged the rsbep metadata, specifically one or more of the metadata segment lengths. Bear in mind that corruption of the metadata is not beyond the realm of possibility, but I assume that the rsbep metadat