From: Timothy Cook (TCOOK@joy.com)
Date: Mon Aug 19 2002 - 08:56:38 EDT
Thanks to :Jeff Cleverley, Peter van Eck and Mark Schupsky
Peter and Mark suggested gnutar, which Mark stated is a "more robust version of tar. It worked for me a few times when normal tar would not read a tape."
Peter added that" the GNU tar version has an option to skip the bad blocks on a tape."
Jeff provided some names of data recovery firms, which is the information I thought I needed.
I did not get a chance to test this information, as I relaized there was one tape drive (on a production server) that I had not tried yet. This newer tape drive read the tape with no problems and I am now rearchiving this information on CD.
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