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  • Subject: Re: Restoring from Tape
  • From: Gary Feinstein <gfeinste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 09:46:43 -0500
  • Organization: Planet Hollywood International Inc.

Neil Palmer wrote:
> 
> Gary,
> 
> If you were dealing with 1/2" reels (which I strongly doubt) you could
> use a nice mainframe product called "ditto" to do manipulate the tape
> and restore the data you want.
> What media is your backup on ?  You may be able to play with BLP (bypass
> label processing) to try to read further into the tape, but with some
> devices (and I believe 1/4" & 8mm are included) the microcode for the
> tape drive prevents you reading beyond the logical 'end of tape' marker.
> Try a DMPTAP command to see if you can dump past the 1 file you saved to
> tape.
> 
> You could also try one of those disaster recovery outfits who may be
> able to help.
> 
> ... Neil Palmer
Neil,
        I am using 3590 Tapes.  I understand the concept behind reading past
the end of file marker on the tape however I have never heard of BLP.  I
have searched for info on this but cannot find any more information in
either the tape subsystem manual nor the AS/400.  Have I overlooked
something?  BTW, I cannot read past the file with either the DMTTAP or
DSPTAP commands.  I think I may have exhausted my options.
Gary
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