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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!sylvester.cc.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: vax@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu (Vax) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: mt woes Date: 10 May 1994 00:23:35 -0500 Organization: The University of Texas - Austin Lines: 8 Message-ID: <2qn5on$c8h@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sylvester.cc.utexas.edu It appears I was foolish enough to create a tar archive at the -beginning- of a QIC-format tape. I lost almost 300MB of data. Is there any way to recover it? I did: tar -cvb 100 -f /dev/nrst0 while the tape was rewound. :( -- Protect our endangered bandwidth - reply by email. NO BIG SIGS! VaX#n8 vax@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu - Don't blame me if the finger daemon is down