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- From: ercn50@castle.ed.ac.uk (Lifesupport)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Backup question
- Message-ID: <29846@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 11:27:08 GMT
- Organization: Edinburgh University
- Lines: 22
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- Hi All - Seasons Greetings !! - can someone/anyone help with the
- following ? - any HELP much appreciated ...
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- I have a situation whereby a user has identified a loss
- of data on a magtape (the magnetic tape should contain data going back
- quite some time but the savesets on the tape only go back a few months).
-
- I can only assume that the tape had been initialised at some stage this
- is reinforced by the fact that the first saveset on the tape is not the
- start of a saveset.
-
- What I think has happened is that a backup to tape requested mounting a
- second (relative) volume and by mistake the same volume was loaded hence
- causing the tape to be initialized and this would explain the fact that the
- first saveset on the tape is not the beginning of the saveset.
-
- My question is how can I recover data from the initialized tape ...
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-
- Kenny Stevenon
- Edinburgh University Computing Service
-