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

[Rickard Osser <ricky@xxxxxxxx>]

If you copy the file to your raq, then open it in emacs, do your see "^M"
after each line?

If you do you have to replace <CR><LF> with only <LF> and it should work
, after stripping the header...

Stupid MS-DOS tricks! :(

Best regards,

Rickard Osser
Manager
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On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Multivex wrote:

> 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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