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"I might be a bit confused here, but the .tar file is just archived and the symbols you see are normal. You need to unarchive it with something like this" tar -xvf yourfile.tar thanks for reply i tried the above command still hosts.cfg file is in binary format. any how i reconfigured hosts...

Hi All,

While taking tar backup of hosts.cfg file , it was converted into binary file like "^@" .i tried to revert it back, but i didn't succeed.Now i decided to reconfigure based on services.cfg,hostsgroups.cfg,commands.cfg.

how can i do it?

can any one help me.


Regards,
Muni.I