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From: vax@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu (Vax)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: mt woes
Date: 10 May 1994 00:23:35 -0500
Organization: The University of Texas - Austin
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It appears I was foolish enough to create a tar archive at the -beginning- of a
QIC-format tape.  I lost almost 300MB of data.  Is there any way to recover it?
I did:
tar -cvb 100 -f /dev/nrst0
while the tape was rewound. :(
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