tar archive overwritten

1997-09-19 Thread Marc Fleureck
URGENT. I know this is not the wright place to ask this kind of question, but it is a very urgent one ! My news server is down, so I try here. It could have happened on a linux system too ! Here's the problem description: System: Unisys SMP5400, Pentium P5/EISA, Sys 5R4 (4.0.2). Tar ar

Re: tar archive overwritten

1997-09-18 Thread Jason Costomiris
ption: : : System: Unisys SMP5400, Pentium P5/EISA, Sys 5R4 (4.0.2). : : Tar archive overwritten. Help ! Does this sound familiar ? We need to : extract a dump file of about 4M that is on a DAT tape, ... somewhere. : Little problem: the (backup-) tape was overwritten by the command: : : tar -cvf /de