Unknown Backup Format - Just a README file.

February 10, 2006 5:57 PM

I'm trying to access some old backup CDs and can't remember what backup program I used to create them. The only thing Windows can see on the CDs is a README.txt file that says: "This disc is a backup CD. Except for this file the contents of this disc must be accessed using your backup software." The rest of the data is invisible and presumably in a proprietary backup format. I followed this advice to no avail. Anybody know what backup program I used back then?
posted by ao4047 to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

Check this thread out. I guess it was an HP diaster recovery program?
posted by provolot at 6:12 PM on February 10, 2006

According to a German Google group (linux.debian.user.german newsgroup actually), it's from Sony Spressa Backup.
posted by mdevore at 6:22 PM on February 10, 2006

It could be a multisession disk. You might fool around with some disk imaging programs (Deamon Tools, Alcohol 120%, Nero, that kind of thing) and see if you can force it to mount one of the sessions found later on the disk.
posted by Rhomboid at 6:38 PM on February 10, 2006

I think it is Vertias StorageGuard that came with my old old HP CD-Writer 8200. Trying now to resurrect the data.
posted by ao4047 at 8:24 PM on February 10, 2006