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Re: Restoring an ArcServe tape on Linux without ArcServe
2004-09-08 12:09:25
Martin Hepworth wrote:
dd the entire tape to disk, so you've got the binary to play with^W^W
inspect.
Exactly what I was thinking. Next, I'd probably use "split" to break it
down into manageable chunks and use "strings" and "od" commands such as
"od -c" and hex editors to try to make some sense of the junk. With
luck, you might find some pattern, like the beginning/end of individual
backups or files that you could use "csplit" to break the backup into
more logical chunks. With even more luck, you might figure out what
compression algorithm was used, for example "gzip" compressed data
almost always begins with the same character string, but I forget what
it is, then you might be able to decompress the chunks or something if
it isn't totally proprietary.
--jonathan
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