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

[Gordon <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Rickard Osser wrote:

>>> If I strip all till TARDUMP.GZ I get an error trying to open the file. 

Strup this also, and the new line after it
the ^_ is the gzip signature


> 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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