Thanks to everyone who replied. They all confirmed what I suspected from the beginning, that I wouldn't be able to recover this information given the format. I did go back to the vendor and requested them to gzip it through their Linux. I'll have the tape this afternoon. I also have to remember that when my manager ask me things like "what size tape do you use on that thing?," to ask WHY? (Two lessons learned here.) My original message is below. Thanks again. -----Original Message----- Managers: I realize this may be the wrong forum, but I'm desperate. I have a DLT 4500 attached to my SUN Enterprise 450. System works great, I'm able to do backups, etc. My problem...my boss requested a vendor to dump an entire image library onto a DLT tape. Fine. But the vendor used WIN2K backup to do the dump. When I try mt -f /dev/rmt/1n fsf 0, I get an I/O error, and the machine makes some funny noises trying to read the tape. Does anyone know of a way to recover these files from the tape using my SUN? Thank you Sue Peterson Systems Analyst/Group Lead ePublishing, POC-PUB Freightliner LLC PO Box 3849 Portland, OR 97208-3849 SuePeterson@Freightliner.com Phone: 503.745.8333 Fax: 503.745.6745 _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Nov 8 16:08:53 2001
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