Recovering data from overwritten tape

From: Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs_at_mail.natur.cuni.cz>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 18:18:48 +0100 (MET)

Hello,
 someone asked me, if is it possible to recover data from accidentally
overwritten tape. They used 'tar cvf' command. Overwrote just the
beginning of the tape, most probably. Any ideas?

In the worst case, if the data are ASCII text files, is it possible to use
dd to get data from tape, and then maually edit them? He spoke about 5
15MB files.....

TIA
martin
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