[NCLUG] Tape extraction help needed.

Sean Reifschneider jafo-nclug at tummy.com
Thu Nov 7 20:39:16 MST 2002


On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 07:09:04PM -0800, Erich wrote:
>Does anyone know of another utility to simply dump data
>from a tape to a file?  (cpio is doing the same as dd right

If this is a DDS tape, and there's an End Of Data mark written there,
the only way to recover is to use special hardware -- you'll have to
send it to a data recovery service.

Sean
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