Hello,

of course, you can read the tapes, but you will not able to extract data for 
restoring :-)

The scanner can be performed even if the Networker software is not running, 
this is a stand-alone command.

Denis

----- "Shellie Thomas" <s.thomas AT UQ.EDU DOT AU> a écrit :

> Hi,
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>  
> 
> We have some tapes that have been written on 1 backup server that was
> running Networker. This will no longer start networker. Is there
> anyway
> to read the tapes other than using the SCANNER command?/
> 
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