Re: tar boo-boo...

1997-06-14 Thread Jim Pick
> Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Since it only wrote out a few files, does anyone know if there is a > > way to retrieve the files off the tape that weren't overwritten? > > Hmm. Given my previous experiences with tape drives, you may be out > of luck. When you clobbered the old fil

Re: tar boo-boo...

1997-06-14 Thread Rob Browning
Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since it only wrote out a few files, does anyone know if there is a > way to retrieve the files off the tape that weren't overwritten? Hmm. Given my previous experiences with tape drives, you may be out of luck. When you clobbered the old file, you wrote a

tar boo-boo...

1997-06-12 Thread Jim Pick
This is somewhat embarassing, but I was replacing one of my hard drives with a larger one this morning, so I backed up everything to my SCSI DAT drive with "tar cvf /dev/nst0 /fleminga". When the new drive was in, a meant to restore the files (tar xvf), but I typed "tar cvf /dev/nst0 /fleminga/*"