Ok, thanks again.
Paul Therrien
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Subject: RE: Old Ultrium 2 tape but Ultrium 5 drive - on a power 7 - need help with reading the tape
need all
Rob Berendt
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IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM i 6.1 Group Dekko Dept 1600 Mail to: 2505 Dekko Drive
Garrett, IN 46738
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From: Paul Therrien <ptherrien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date: 04/27/2012 01:52 PM
Subject: RE: Old Ultrium 2 tape but Ultrium 5 drive - on a power 7
- need help with reading the tape
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Do I need an image catalog is I am just doing the DUPTAP? Do I Just need
the virtual tape device?
Paul Therrien
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mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 12:18 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Old Ultrium 2 tape but Ultrium 5 drive - on a power 7 - need
help with reading the tape
Go back to company 1. Ask them not to restore, but instead DUPTAP to
virtual tape. Then DUPTAP back to LTO4. Send him some step-by-step
instructions on how to do so and offer him a case of beer for his
troubles.
Rob Berendt
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IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM i 6.1 Group Dekko Dept 1600 Mail
to: 2505 Dekko Drive
Garrett, IN 46738
Ship to: Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com
From: Paul Therrien <ptherrien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date: 04/27/2012 01:12 PM
Subject: Old Ultrium 2 tape but Ultrium 5 drive - on a power 7 -
need help with reading the tape
Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
We just upgrade hardware from a power 6 to a power 7. In the process we
moved from an Ultrium 2 and Ultrium 4 tape drives to an Ultrium 5 tape
drive.
We ensured that all of our critical data was available on Ultrium 4 tapes
and that we would lose nothing when we got rid of the Ultrium 2 drive.
....You can see what's coming....
An old Ultrium 2 tape has surfaced that we absolutely need to read, but we
no longer have the hardware to read it.
The tape is a save tape from V6R1. We attempted to restore it at another
company who has an Ultrium 4 drive , however they are at V5R4 - we were
unable to restore the data to a prior release.
We found another company that has V6R1 and Ultrium 4, but they are unable
to help us as they say we will mess up their BRMS system (I do not
understand this, they are willing to help but they say restoring a tape
that is not part of their catalogue will mess them up) So we thanked them
and moved on. We are getting ready to ship our tape out to be processed
by IBM.
So I am just looking for some feedback from the list.
Amy help is appreciated.
Paul Therrien
midrange.com
