Recover variable while trapped in an infinite loop

I got stuck in an infinite loop as described here (bug 624817): http://www.mathworks.com/support/bugreports/624817

unfortunately I need one special variable(100*1 matrix) that I computed first (simulation run about 10 days on a linux powered server).

The question is whether there is some way to get this variable. I could do a memory dump but that would give me quite a lot of data and I do not know how to find the right bits. Is there any solution? I can not rerun the simulation because I need the result in the next few days.

I would really appreciate any help. Thanks in advance, Elias

P.S. Ideas would be: 1. attach to the process and somehow manage to fetch the variable. 2. memory dump 3. somehow stop matlab from executing while keeping the program alive.

But I have no idea how to do any of these things...