RE: FW: Recovering data from initialized tape

IBM provides a service that will attempt to recover data from initialized
tapes (not cleared).  Costs a couple hundred bucks for a "normal" recovery,
based on time. Please don't ask how I know.  Call support & they should be
able to point you I the right direction - if not, let me know & I will try
to drag out the info.  I think I only lost the first 2 or 3 sequence numbers
on the tape out of hundreds.

Alex 

> This is my first message to this list and unfortunately is under 
> rather unpleasant circumstances.  I have managed to initialize a tape 
> with
approx
> 1 years worth of valuable data.  It is a 3570 tape that was initialized.
> I am not an as/400 ops person by any stretch of the imagination but I 
> do take care of backups/restores among a couple of other jobs.  I am 
> being told that the type of initialize that we do only deletes the 
> header and technically the rest of the data is still on the tape.  I 
> did some google searches and found something about "bypass label 
> processing" but can't find enough detail to know if it would help me 
> or not?  I have also read about services that will rebuild headers to 
> recover the data, but no
links
> or numbers to this type of service.
>
>