[Wylug-help] The tape saga continues...

[Graham Whaley]

Can you give us a hex dump of the header ? - something like

head filename.bin | hexdump -C

  I would then look for any pertinent strings in the header and google for
them.  Or, scan through some Unix files, such as the source :-), or the
magic (/usr/share/magic on my box) file.
  Have you tried a 'file filename.bin' on it ?

    I did some googling on the HDR, "SECTOR SIZE" and SOURCE, but no luck
I'm afraid.

  So, on a side note, does anybody know how to get google to accept '*'s in
a search string ?

    Graham

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martyn Ranyard" <martyn at syn.co.uk>
To: <wylug-help at wylug.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 10:59 AM
Subject: [Wylug-help] The tape saga continues...


>
> Oh what fun! :-)
>
> We managed to get a data recovery house to put that tape reel onto CD.  So
now
> we have a file of the contents of the tape.  The wierdness is getting more
:
>
> - The tape contained ~55MB of data
> - This means that it would have probably not been AOS/VS or RDOS - good
news I
> guess - The expense of a tape drive that could store that much made it
extremely
> unlikely to have been a machine that would run them.
> - The tape format is not tar, or cpio, so it probably wasn't a unix system
:(
> - The header of the file starts thus :
> **HDR*^@<8D>^@^P^@*^@^C^@^A%<80>^A^@<A0>^@  16:42:03 WEDNESDAY, MAY 21,
1997.^@
> ^@^@^@^@^@^@VOLUME= 1       SECTOR SIZE= 256SOURCE=.D
> - We think the dbms was informix - is there an informix backup format?
>
> Anyone who has any clues, please feel free to theorise! :-)
>
> Thanks.
>
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> Martyn Ranyard
> Development Manager
> Synergistic Software
> (01937) 573 446
> http://www.syn.co.uk/
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