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Xref: sserve comp.unix.admin:9489 comp.unix.bsd:11589 comp.unix.questions:31783 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!usenet.ee.pdx.edu!pdxgate!steele!hillm From: hillm@ohsu.edu (Milton Hill) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.questions Subject: help!! tar misuse ate my harddisc?? Message-ID: <1993Mar2.225448.143@ohsu.edu> Date: 2 Mar 93 22:54:48 GMT Article-I.D.: ohsu.1993Mar2.225448.143 Organization: Oregon Health Sciences University Lines: 36 Well, I did it this time... I need help- WHAT I DID- I wanted to backup my directory onto another local drive (/dev/sd3c). I issued the command - rainbow# tar -cvf /dev/sd3c /home/rainbow/milt. I remembered that I had a linked directory from dev/sd3c back to /home/rainbow/milt. (@$%@$#%!!!) WHAT HAPPENED- It appeared that tar did its thing, but when it finished there was no tar file on dev/sd3c. I did still have the linked directory back to /home /rainbow/Y. I exited to multiuser mode and tried to fsck -p /dev/sd3c. I got the same error as above. Now I can change to the directory that is the mount point for the disc and an ls gives the following - rainbow :hillm:9 : ls -l /data total 2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root 512 Aug 7 1992 ./ drwxr-xr-x 20 root 1024 Mar 2 13:56 ../ WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW- 1. Can I salvage the data on the disc? 2. What did I do wrong? This is a SUn IPX with Open Windows 3.0 and SUN OS 4.1.1 Any help would be greatly appreciated. Milt Hill ODFW hillm@ohsu.edu 5032296967x472