Pull stuff out of CWM 6 nandroid

Greetings XDA users,

I faced a really huge problem when my phone suddenly went into bootloop but I forgot to perform my TB backup. So I went into CWM 6 recovery backed up my "Non-functioning" ROM hoping to somehow recovery my data. After I got my phone up and running, I then tried to recovery my data from my nandroid backup which had these files [data.ext4.tar, data.ext4.tar.a, data.ext4.tar.b] but I didnt know how to extract them until I found this:

From a thread on androidforums.com
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The new cwb backup format splits large files into multiple tars, for example data.ext4.tar, data.ext4.tar.a, and data.ext4.tar.b.

I couldn't open some of these with 7zip, winrar, on windows or tar on ubuntu.

However, if you just "cat" them together:

cat data.ext4.tar data.ext4.tar.a data.ext4.tar.b > data-combined.tar

then you'll get a tar file that is readable. Everything seems to be intact for me. Hope this helps someone.

I wasn't sure where to post this, so please mods feel free to move it if you see it fit better somewhere else.
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It really helped me. So I decided to post this on XDA maybe someone will benefit from it
I also found out something, If you are using windows use this command in the command prompt instead of the one above

type data.ext4.tar data.ext4.tar.a data.ext4.tar.b > data-combined.tar

I hope I helped someone with this thread. I'm not sure if I posted it in the right place so mods please move it to the appropriate place
Thanks :)

Source: http://androidforums.com/android-app...-nandroid.html