Networker

Re: [Networker] recover a tape?

2008-09-24 13:56:10
Subject: Re: [Networker] recover a tape?
From: Davina Treiber <Davina.Treiber AT PEEVRO.CO DOT UK>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:50:45 +0100
Browning, David wrote:
I think I know the answer to this, but just want to make sure.
Is there a way to recover (via scanner, or something similar) a tape
that someone accidentally overwrote a new label on?   In theory, the
data is still on the tape, it just has a new label. Has anyone had this happen, and successfully recovered the data?

You need a specialist recovery company for this. Standard tape drives cannot read past the EOT marker. This will be expensive.

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