extacting a Nero "Back It Up" .nba file

tikibars · 10-17-2006, 06:56 PM

Hi

I have a Nero "Back It Up" .nba file, with .avi movies in it that I wish to extract on an Apple OSX machine.

Since I can't actually use Nero to open the archive (Nero is a Windows only app), does anyone know of some little utility app for OSX (10.3.9 in my case) that will extract the files from this archive?

I tried StuffIt, which will usually open just about anything, but got an error message (#17538) saying that the archive may contain damaged material. Which may be accurate, and my just mean that StuffIt is confused by the format.

tikibars · 10-24-2006, 02:41 AM

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robbage · 09-09-2007, 08:20 AM

.nba are zip files. You can certainly rename it to *.ZIP and open with a zip utility. The filenames will all be in 8.3 format, though (which might not be a problem for you if you already know what to look for). The directory structure is preserved except the dos drive letter is prepended. (eg C\WINDOWS\LONGFIL~.TXT)

I was reading somewhere that the long filename, user, group etc etc is stored in a separate file. I don't know where that file ends up. Possibly within the archive itself.

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10-17-2006, 06:56 PM	#1
tikibars Prospect Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 12	extacting a Nero "Back It Up" .nba file Hi I have a Nero "Back It Up" .nba file, with .avi movies in it that I wish to extract on an Apple OSX machine. Since I can't actually use Nero to open the archive (Nero is a Windows only app), does anyone know of some little utility app for OSX (10.3.9 in my case) that will extract the files from this archive? I tried StuffIt, which will usually open just about anything, but got an error message (#17538) saying that the archive may contain damaged material. Which may be accurate, and my just mean that StuffIt is confused by the format.

10-24-2006, 02:41 AM	#2
tikibars Prospect Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 12	bump bump bump

09-09-2007, 08:20 AM	#3
robbage Registered User Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 1	.nba are zip files. You can certainly rename it to *.ZIP and open with a zip utility. The filenames will all be in 8.3 format, though (which might not be a problem for you if you already know what to look for). The directory structure is preserved except the dos drive letter is prepended. (eg C\WINDOWS\LONGFIL~.TXT) I was reading somewhere that the long filename, user, group etc etc is stored in a separate file. I don't know where that file ends up. Possibly within the archive itself.