Hi everyone, Well, the fact that I am posting this after 12:00am Sunday night (and on my birthday, to-boot!) should indicate just how dire the situation is... I have had a drive failure on a server and I can no longer mount the data partition on the hard drive (/dev/hda5 [ext3 under RH7.3]) because the replacement server (Fedora Core 1) claims that the drive's superblock is toast. Now, before anyone rips me a new one, I -DO- have a tape drive but that, too, has rather depressingly failed. When I try to recover the files from the IDE Travan 8GB drive it successdully recovers about 50 files and then fails with this... -= Begin Error =- [root-9CO/sRhIDOA at public.gmane.org tape]# tar zxvf /dev/ht0 . [bunch-of-files] . home/OldC/Program Files/Common Files/Symantec Shared/VirusDefs/19970902.001/navex15.exp home/OldC/Program Files/Common Files/Symantec Shared/VirusDefs/19970902.001/navex15.sys home/OldC/Program Files/Common Files/Symantec Shared/VirusDefs/19970902.001/NAVEX15.VXD gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now [root-9CO/sRhIDOA at public.gmane.org tape]# -= End Error =- This is true on three of the tapes I have tried to recover from. The data was backed up via this simple script: -= Begin Script =- mt -f /dev/ht0 erase mt -f /dev/ht0 rewind tar zcvf /dev/ht0 /home/* -= End Script =- I have been Googling for a while now with no success. If anyone has any clues, by all means -please- share them... Also, if anyone here can recommend (as a fall back) a data recovery house that won't balk at an ext3 partition, please forward contact info. Thanks everyone (again!!!) The Ever-Stumbling Madison -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml