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Xref: sserve comp.unix.admin:18872 comp.unix.internals:7111 comp.unix.misc:12063 comp.unix.bsd:13776 comp.unix.ultrix:22206 Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd,alt.unix.wizards.free,comp.unix.ultrix Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!news.duke.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!news.mic.ucla.edu!unixg.ubc.ca!quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca!alberta!bigbrd!crs-sys!nextedm!spl4!cuugnet!millertr From: millertr@cuug.ab.ca (Trever Miller) Subject: Re: BIG TROUBLE : PLEASE REPLY IF YOU CAN !!!! Message-ID: <Cox3Dy.HCJ@cuug.ab.ca> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 12:15:34 GMT References: <CovK53.DCM@isosa2.estec.esa.nl> Organization: Calgary UNIX User's Group X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Followup-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd,alt.unix.wizards.free,comp.unix.ultrix Lines: 22 Christophe Arviset (carviset@isou20.estec.esa.nl) wrote: : Hello everybody : We are running ULTRIX 4.3A on a DECstation 5000-260. : Very important files were backed up (using rdump 0uf) on a file on disk. [snip] : DO YOU KNOW ANY WAY TO RECOVER THE CONTENT OF THE DUMP FILE ? : I would appreciate any kind of help... You could start by dd'ing the raw disk and try to find the files that way, _if_ the vital ones are small and easily identifiable. : Christophe ARVISET -- UNIX (SYSV) & QNX4 | Cyberdex Systems | PGP fingerprint: Programmer For Hire | c/o Trever Miller | F2 F5 7F EF 43 89 58 66 bug@cyberdex.cuug.ab.ca | Suite 557, 918 16Ave. N.W.| 2B 24 ED B5 51 90 22 68 millertr@cuug.ab.ca | Calgary, Alberta T2M 0K3 | Key available via finger