After writing a restore utility and restoring about 200M from QIC, I've
identified the backup utility used. It's Anacom Backup Elite, circa 1994.
(Yeah, I've never heard of it either).
This one was pretty easy--but it does raise the question "What do you do
when the only source of the backup software is on the backup tape?" :)
Cheers,
Chuck
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Original post:
I received a couple of DC6250 backup tapes this morning. While writing a
program to unravel the backup format looks to be pretty simple, I'd like to
know what created these beasts. They're from a Windoze box circa 1995.
The "GENERATION" right at the start might be a hint.
Here's a dump of the first few bytes of a tape, hex on the left, ASCII on
the right:
000000 47 45 4E 45 52 41 54 49-4F 4E 20 EC E9 C6 F3 F4 GENERATION
8T?=(
000010 F4 E5 C2 20 20 70 6F 73-5F 62 61 63 6B 75 70 5F (s- pos_backup_