I did use tapeutil to verify that the label was bad. Problem with this
is that I do not have a backup of tape. The client is not located at our
main site. The way we have things set up, based sorely upon the
constraints placed upon us, we make only one copy from what we consider
not local.

The theory here being we have a tape backup of the client at our main
site. If we lose the client at their site, we have a dr copy. If we lose
the main site, they are intact. It may not be the best way to handle
things, but, again, it is the constraints placed upon us.

> ----------
> From:         Richard Sims[SMTP:rbs AT BU DOT EDU]
> Sent:         Friday, August 22, 1997 11:53 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: How does one recovery a 3590 tape with a blown label
>
> Now, are you sure that it is just the label which is blown?  If you
> are
> having trouble reading the tape, it may be more than just the label.
> I would first physically examine the tape, and then exercise it with
> 'tapeutil' to begin with, to see what can be read from it.  Generally,
> get a sense of what is wrong before getting extreme and possibily
> depending upon a copy of something corrupted.
> You may have to consider giving up on the physical tape and do a data
> recovery from a backup storage pool.         Richard Sims, BU
>