williams@nrl-css.arpa (08/17/88)
I have a set of dump tapes of which the first is damaged (i.e. written over). By sheer luck, we have the first few megs of the first tape in a file, so the symbol table is recoverable. What I need is a method of reading the remaining 9 tapes of this dump and coordinating it with the symbol table. What I have in mind is some sort of utility that can read any tape in a dump and extract files from that tape by inode number. I could then use some other method to rebuild the file system structure, based on the information in the symbol table. Has anyone ever written such a thing, or dealt with this situation some other way. It is very important that we recover this data, so any hints, clues or actual code would be a great help. I have source for dump and restore available so I suppose I could hack those, but that doesn't sound fun. Much thanks, Jim Williams ------------------------------------------------------------ "*I* didn't overwrite that tape, *you* didn't overwrite it, *he* didn't overwrite it, well just who did, hmmmm?" James W. Williams williams@nrl-css.arpa Systems Administrator, Code 5505 Information Technology Division Naval Research Laboratory (202) 767-9035 Washington, DC 20375 ------------------------------------------------------------