Reading BRU Backup tapes

[Lucas Peet]

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You can download a 30 day trial of BRU 17.0 (the latest) from
www.tolisgroup.com.  You will be able to extract the BRU archives
that way.

- -Lucas

Lucas Peet
lpeet at eccod.com
www.eccod.com

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
[mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net] On Behalf Of Charles
Steinkuehler
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 1:33 PM
To: kclug at kclug.org
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 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

- -- 
Charles Steinkuehler
charles at steinkuehler.net

majordomo at kclug.org

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