STRCC@CUNYVM.BITNET (Stuart Cohnen) (02/26/91)
Hi! I am helping out a friend whose employee mistakenly wiped out all the accounts receivable data. I am trying to rebuild the databases. Although I hack some at Unix, this is my exposure to SCO, so please bear with me. The system is an AT/386 running SCO 2.3. A backup was made (although 6 months ago) and I have 12 floppies with the backup. Using /etc/sysadmin I can see the archive list. The files I want are on the last. I ask to retrieve the files and start with diskette #2 and so on. Disk #4 has the following error: fd: ERROR: error on dev floppy (2/52), block=1196, cmd=0000001 status =0000002 Tape read error: inode 624 It then asks for disk 5. Disk five has an error: Missing address (header) block It then asks for the next disk and so on, although after 12 it still asks for 13 (I have no 13). I therefore kill the process. I do find in my directory two files of the name rsta00194 rsta001195. Any ideas? I can make a copy of disk #5, and did a restor directly from it. I still get on of these rstaxxxx files. Do these files have the data I want? Can I extract it from them. Any help is greatly appreciated-- Please reply to STRCC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Thanks- Stuart Cohnen THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK 212 690 8298 strcc@cunyvm.cuny.edu or strcc@cunyvm.bitnet