See my response to a similar question in the adsm-l archives at http://msgs.adsm.org/cgi-bin/get/adsm0001/264.html.
Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. "Good enough" is the enemy of excellence. "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/16/2004 09:59:34: > Hi all. > > I want to know if there is a special technique that can be performed > to recover backups on tapes from a server that lost the DB completely. > > Apparently one of our branches was still doing backups using a 3.7 > ADSM server. They lost their DB, no backups but they have the library > :D > > Does Tivoli have a procedure that could actually recover that data? > > Long shot? :D