Reading BRU Backup tapes
Bill Cavalieri
bcavalieri at gekl.net
Tue Dec 17 22:21:53 CST 2002
I have the latest version of bru, I can bring it to a metting and we can
try it there.
Let me know
-Bill
Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> I have some 8mm Exabyte backup tapes that were generated by the
> Caldera OEM edition of BRU. I don't know much about the Caldera
> install these tapes were made on, except that's it would be pretty old
> by today's standards (2.0 series kernel).
>
> The machine has long since been replaced with a RH install (first RH
> 6.2, now RH 7.2). Does anyone know a way to read BRU formatted tapes
> (tar barfs on them), or am I going to have to pick up a BRU license
> (or build an old caldera system) to get to these files?
>
> NOTE: I'm not even 100% sure the tapes were generated by BRU, but
> reading in the first few sectors with dd and running strings yeilds
> the following:
>
> [root at raven tapetest]# strings test
> /dev/st0
> 43eb 0 03a43f875 8000cb4100001234 0 f 0 7d0
> 0 596820 1615a
> 0 0/dev/st0
> Caldera OEM Edition
> Linux
> ns1.newt
> 2.0.35
> #1 Wed A
> i586
> *** BRU BACKUP DATA *** Info: EST, Tempe, Arizona Ph: 602-820-0042
> Fax: 602-491-0865
> bru -c -vv
> NO SER NUM FILE
> ./lost+found
> 27a2 1 03a43f875 8000cb4100002345 0 f 0 7d0
> 1 596820 1615a
> 41ed b 802 0 2 0 0
> 03a43355e36cbf52336cbf523 0 0
> 21
> ./var
> 24fa 2 03a43f875 8000cb4100002345 0 f 0 7d0
> 2 596820 1615a
> 41ed 809 802 0 11 0 0
> 03a43b41c36d1e9bc37a73885 0 0
> 21
> ./var/adm
> 26ab 3 03a43f875 8000cb4100002345 0 f 0 7d0
> 3 596820 1615a
> 41ed 1011 802 0 3 0 0
> 03a43355e36cbf52d36cbf5b4 0 0
> 21
>
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