Running tar cmd in wrong format, how to recover

Asked Aug 20 '16 at 17:53

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Trying to tar a file called report, but accidentally running wrong format

$ ls -l
-rw-r--r--  1 root root      708 Aug 20 10:12 report
$ tar czvf report report.tar.gz

then

$ ls -l
-rw-r--r--  1 root root       45 Aug 20 10:13 report

how to recover the original file?

edited Aug 20 '16 at 23:04

asked Aug 20 '16 at 17:53

znet98

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hmm I think you found an interesting way to destroy a file... – Zanna Aug 20 '16 at 18:24
I made a similar mistake on a NTFS drive. Instead of extracting the file, I overwrote it. I was able to recover the original archive using a hex editor. – Uroc327 Aug 20 '16 at 20:18
See also [Recovering accidentally deleted files](http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/2677/23408). – Scott - Слава Україні Aug 20 '16 at 21:29
I made a similar mistake on a NTFS drive. Instead of extracting the file, I overwrote it. I was able to recover the original archive using a hex editor. – Uroc327 Aug 20 '16 at 20:17

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