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

["Multivex" <multivex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Kris:

I opened the file with Vedit

Here are the first lines thata I believe are the header:

BACKUP_HEADER 10 12 22 28 1 100 1 58 0
datef=Mon Feb 28 22:12:10 2000
build=build 2.256 for a 2700RS in English
user=admin
backupset=groupdir
target=home
increment=
protocol=httpd
hostname=futuraweb.com
targetip=196.40.3.244
targethost=
script=/cgi-bin/.cobalt/backup/backup.cgi
browser=Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)
serveradmin=admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
TARDUMP.GZ

< (here goes the compressed code)

If I strip all till TARDUMP.GZ I get an error trying to open the file. I
tried blank line or no line at all.

I always get the following error:

Error reading file starting at line 0

Can you please help me to overcome this?

Regards

Johnny
----- Original Message -----
From: Kris Dahl <kris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 4:12 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] How to recover a backup file


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


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