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[Veritas-bu] How to recover data from overwrited tape?

2006-02-02 09:20:15
Subject: [Veritas-bu] How to recover data from overwrited tape?
From: mlv03 AT healthresearch DOT org (Mike L. Varney)
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 09:20:15 -0500
This won't work, as when the tape is starting to be overwritten, the EOM
marker will be back towards the beginning of the tape.  You won't be able
to MT the tape past the EOM marker.

-- M

> Hello Jay
>
> If they have a unix media server, you may be able to extract the data
with
> tar, from the not yet overwritten part of the tapes.
>
> Regards
> Michael