RE: [cobalt-developers] restoring from qube2 backup

[Jonas Pasche <jonas@xxxxxxxx>]

hi john,

> >>1. I have a 7 meg .qub file I'm trying to restore on a windows machine.
> >>2. I tried the perl script on it, and it didn't work - it left a 504 byte
> >>output.tar.gz and exited with no message.
> >
> >that's just what it should do - strip all headers, and leave an out.tar.gz
> >that you can unpack with tar -xzvf.
>
> well, no, a 504 byte file is not what should be left from 7 meg.

sorry, read too fast. :|

stripheader.pl strips everything between $begin and $end. normally these 
vars have the following values:

my ($end) = "\%\%END_INDEX";
my ($begin) = "\%\%BACKUP_HEADER";

this should work for qube2 and raq2. on a raq3 there have to be other values.

if you look into your .qub file - can you see that the text part starts 
with %%BACKUP_HEADER and ends up with %%END_INDEX? if not, there is the 
problem. you can simply change the values to your needs - maybe the backup 
script wrote garbage into the .qub file?

> Do you mean that gunzip can ignore the text headers that are on the file and
> can directly unzip the qub file?

no, first strip the headers (with a working version of stripheader.pl, or 
with your editor, but i really would prefer the perl script) and then use 
gunzip. using gunzip directly will -not- work.

using gunzip is just to be sure... normally winzip works fine with all .gz 
files, but i had 1 or 2 cases where it didn't.

> Is there a gunzip for windows I could find somewhere?

http://www.gzip.org

cya, jonas.


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