[wellylug] Bigfile scanner

Cliff Pratt enkidu at cliffp.com
Sat May 13 13:47:48 NZST 2006


Geraint Jones wrote:
> 
> I finally have the tape drive i needed - however we have no idea what
>  the program was that made the backups on them
> 
> the good news is the contents seem to be unencrypted/compressed so 
> getting the stuff out *should* be possible.
> 
> what i am currently doing is cat'ing /dev/st0 into a file.
> 
> does anyone know of a tool that i can scan the bigfile with to find
> the files within ? i know these tools exist for doze - not sure about
>  GNU/Linux though
> 
Have you tried the usual suspects? Tar, gzip, un/compress?

Cheers,

Cliff

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