Re: [cobalt-users] How to recover a backup file

[Kris Dahl <kris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 3/8/00 1:19 PM, Multivex at multivex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> How can I strip the header off?
> 
> I have my computer under Windows 98
> 
> Regards
> 
> Johnny
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kris Dahl <kris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 1:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] How to recover a backup file
> 
> 
> on 3/8/00 11:18 AM, Multivex at multivex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
>> I have a backup file of my home directory in a Raq I used to own
>> 
>> At this time, I moved to a RaQ2 and cannot restore the files to the server
>> 
>> I need desesperately the information in the backup file
>> 
>> Is there a way I can decompress it to normal files or some other type of
>> solution?ç
> 
> If I remember correctly, the backup file is just a tarball with a header on
> it it.  If you want to strip the header off you can just un tar (gzip as
> well?) it.


I believe that you just open it with a decent text editor, stip the top of
it off up to the beginnging of the tar file (should be pretty obvious where
that is.

Save it as a tar.gz or something (if you're in windows, your winzip or
whatever programs going to want to see that extension).

You should then be able to extract it.

-k