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тАО08-04-2000 01:20 PM
тАО08-04-2000 01:20 PM
I have a DLT library working with OB2 3.0. Now, i see in Device & Media Manegement menu of OB2 Main, a poor condition in a configured media pool. by doubled-click on it i see the Media Management Menu and find it a Media with poor quality.
is posible to recover the data in it?
How i do it ?
Thanks
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тАО08-04-2000 02:54 PM
тАО08-04-2000 02:54 PM
Re: Tape DLT poor
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/CategoryHome/1,1147,163,00.html
Omniback may have decided the tape is poor for one of three common reasons...
1. Some sort of error interrupted a backup and restore. Often this is an I/O error.
2. The tape has been used a great deal, and Omniback has counted those uses, and decided the tape is OLD - and therefore should be taken out of use, even if it is working well at the moment.
3. The tape is in fact poor (which would result in I/O errors.)
Ask yourself which of these is most likely.
If there were I/O errors of some sort - look to remove that cause.
If you do not have a current set of Omniback patches, please get them - have them available, and apply them at some future point. The media agent patch is most relevant to your symptoms, but you should probably keep all of them reasonably up to date.
As an Omniback guy - I think of I/O errors as almost everything between Omniback and the magnetic tape. You should look to SCSI patches on the OS, TAPE patches, etc., as well as firmware in any fiberchannel MUXes, tape drives, tape libraries, and so forth.
Back to your question. If the tape is marked as poor, tell Omniback to VERIFY the tape (re-read the whole tape.)
If the tape verifies succesfully (and it isn't too old) then Omniback will mark it as FAIR again.
Good Luck.
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тАО08-04-2000 02:59 PM
тАО08-04-2000 02:59 PM
Re: Tape DLT poor
Actually it MIGHT be possible to recover data from the tape.
Exercise your ingenuity, perhaps the read (and verify) fails in one tape drive, but works in another...
If you really need to do so, you can use the unsupported TapeAnalyser tool.
Depending on what the problem is, there may be some other ways to get some of the data off. If this is a critical recovery, open a call.
Good Luck.
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тАО08-07-2000 06:45 AM
тАО08-07-2000 06:45 AM
Re: Tape DLT poor
Try to copy it to another good tape. If it works you have your data. Then you can do an init on the poor tape and most of the time it will come back as good again. First try to get your data off of it.
DLT tapes have such a long service life, many, many uses. Not to say it will not happen, I just have not seen any good bad and not be recoverable.
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тАО08-07-2000 11:00 AM
тАО08-07-2000 11:00 AM
Re: Tape DLT poor
I verified tape, and these messages appears:
Cannot read from device (I/O error).
Medium format corrupted, medium is not recoperable..
are there any form to recover data ?
thanks
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тАО08-07-2000 03:59 PM
тАО08-07-2000 03:59 PM
Re: Tape DLT poor
If you are really a brave soul, you may be able to use a utility like dd to bring the structure onto a disk and poke around in it.
That sort of recovery is probably better left for folks that do data recovery. Do a search for data recovery and you will find many companies that can attempt it for you.
A key point to observer is WHEN did it give you errors...If it verified for an hour before you got errors, then perhaps much of your data is intact. If it broke immediatly I would hold less hope.
Good Luck.
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тАО08-08-2000 06:51 AM
тАО08-08-2000 06:51 AM
Re: Tape DLT poor
I cannot copy them, but if the data is in the catalog, it is retreivable.
Tommy
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тАО08-08-2000 12:31 PM
тАО08-08-2000 12:31 PM
Re: Tape DLT poor
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тАО08-09-2000 08:15 AM
тАО08-09-2000 08:15 AM
Re: Tape DLT poor
Where i can get TapeAnalizer and documentation ?
Does dd need any special option ?
I tried with some combination of block size but unsuccesfully.
Thanks
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тАО08-09-2000 08:43 AM
тАО08-09-2000 08:43 AM
SolutionThere is no documentation that I am aware of - although if you execute the command it will give you a short syntax description.
I suspect you should probably give this task to a consultant or disaster recovery firm.
Good Luck.