From: "Chris Robinson" 

Geo. wrote:

> what is the error they are getting? It's hard to believe it's the
> tapes if they tried 25 of them, gotta be either where they are
> restoring to or the drive itself. I use the exact same drives and
> they've been very reliable so I suspect the cause may be in where
> they are restoring to but without knowing the error message it's just
> a guess.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Chris Robinson" 
wrote in message
> news:400eade4$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Someone at one of our sites is having a problem with their tapes.
> > They keep getting errors when restoring data - they've tried 25
> > tapes and the same error occurs.  I've suggested some things to try
> > (to try to pin point the problem a bit better - it may be the
> > software or the backup drive yet) but they originally asked about
> > data recovery software for tapes.
> >
> > Does anyone know of any good software to recover data from tapes?
> > They're DDS4 tapes on an SDT 10000 tape drive, and the person has
> > been using BackupExec 8.6.
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Chris.

I don't actually have access to the drive.  Our company has an internal
windows mailing list and this guy at one of our other sites is experiencing
the problem.

According to his mail it's an "inconsistency when trying to restore" error.
I'm waiting to here back from him to see if he finds anything out - I'll
keep you all posted ;o)
Chris.

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