9 Jan
2023
9 Jan
'23
7:25 p.m.
On 30/12/2022 20:17, John Herron via cctalk wrote:
This may be a larger conversation than I intend but
how would you all
generally start if you ha backup tapes that you wanted to try and
read/restore?
Supposedly they're Amiga qic tapes. I'm a little worried about the
structural integrity of the tapes. Not knowing what software was used,
would this be a literal job for something like tar via a Linux system? Then
see if I can interpret the dump and sort out files afterwards?
I might see if a local group wants to help play with this effort since I
think I only have 1 drive in unknown condition.
I'd start by figuring out what drive they were made with, and getting
one of those (and make sure it works in R/W mode with a scratch tape).
Then I'd image the tape with Tapeimgr
(<https://github.com/KBNLresearch/tapeimgr>) and see if I could figure
out what software was used. I've reverse-engineered a few, Retrospect
and one other, I think I uploaded it all to my Github.
Usually there's a bit of plaintext or a magic number in the files which
gives away the application which created them, and a quick Google search
will tell you what it was.
Cheers,
--
Phil.
philpem(a)philpem.me.uk
https://www.philpem.me.uk/