Message-ID: <3DFF7BE7.8020507@steinkuehler.net> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:37:27 -0600 From: Charles Steinkuehler <charles@steinkuehler.net> Subject: Reading BRU Backup tapes
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@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
-- Charles Steinkuehler charles@steinkuehler.net