Re: Rescueing a DLT tarball on a Mac

From: Maury Markowitz (maury_markowitz_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/08/05 

Date: 8 Nov 2005 10:20:43 -0800

No, I haven't tried file -- I'm pretty newbie to all of this so I'll
have to try that next.

BTW, there are things in the file I got that suggest it really is data.
In particular I saw strings of error messages from the "inside" of a
program that I recognize.

Someone suggested the easiest way to know for sure is to do another dd
with the block size set to some huge number and copies=1. That way I
get one ginourmous block, the length of which should tell me the block
size used by the backup software. I'm going to give that a try on the
weekend. He also noted that if the software uses variable-block-sizes
(which it can) then I'm in for some serious pain.

You know, after all of this I suddenly "get" open source.

Maury

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