Re: Old Ultrium 2 tape but Ultrium 5 drive - on a power 7 - need help with reading the tape

You can very likely get the job done as described in other posts. The biggest constraint is be sure to build the tape image big enough so you don't wind up creating additional tape volumes. That will complicate getting one tape in the end.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 4/27/2012 12:54 PM, Paul Therrien wrote:

Thanks Jim. Working on the Virtual Tape idea from Rob right now.

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

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iDevCloud has all the gear needed to convert your tape. Give me or Larry a call.

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Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 4/27/2012 12:05 PM, Paul Therrien wrote:

> 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
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