See my response to a similar question in the adsm-l archives at
http://msgs.adsm.org/cgi-bin/get/adsm0001/264.html.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 12/16/2004
09:59:34:

> Hi all.
>
> I want to know if there is a special technique that can be performed
> to recover backups on tapes from a server that lost the DB completely.
>
> Apparently one of our branches was still doing backups using a 3.7
> ADSM server. They lost their DB, no backups but they have the library
> :D
>
> Does Tivoli have a procedure that could actually recover that data?
>
> Long shot? :D