Tape Restore

[Andrew Mathews]

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Robert E. Raymond wrote:
| Hi all,
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| I've got an issue with my Sony SDT-9000 and restoration of NT Backup
to NT
| Backup under XP, so I was wondering iif anyone knew if there was a way to
| restore from the NT Backup formatted tape to Linux (where the data is
isn't
| really important, just that I have the data).  Backing up and
restoring stuff
| in Linux works just fine using KDat (sorry, but it *is* simpler for
*me* than
| command line tar anyway...)
|
|
| 			TIA
|
| 			Bob Raymond

First thing is to determine the format that it's backed up in. I don't
know for sure, but most Windows backup programs use a proprietary
method. Normally something backed up with Backup Exec isn't readable by
Tapeware, etc., etc. Trying to read it into linux adds another layer of
complexity that may not be attainable. I'd really try using Windows to
get the data off the tape first, even if it requires using an old system
to load the os and restore program.

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