Re: Corrupt Backup

On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:42:24 -0500, Animenia
<Animenia.36al2e@no.email.invalid> put finger to keyboard and
composed:

>A customer came into the store the other day with a Toshiba external
>400 GB Harddrive and had a problem I've never encountered before.
>
>He had done a backup of his photos using the backup software that came
>along with the harddrive.

>Anyway... This software compressed his photo folder in 14 .RIM files.
>According to the manual you are supposed to be able to simply extract
>these .RIM files using the backup software to restore a backup.
>
>However we aren't able to load the .RIM files using the software at
>all.

Try viewing the .RIM files with a hex editor. I suspect that the
individual photo files may have been incompressible GIFs or JPEGs. If
you are lucky, then your backup software may simply have added these
files to the .RIM archive without further compression, in which case
you may be able to extract the individual sections with your hex
editor. Look for GIF89 or JFIF signatures.

To make it easier for others to help you, you might like to backup a
small test JPEG or GIF to a .RIM file, and then upload this .RIM to
your web space.

- Franc Zabkar
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