> On Jan 25, 2017, at 1:24 PM, Stan Sieler <sie...@allegro.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > We have a friend with a "tape" (DDS, DLT, or LTO ... don't know which yet) > to which was written a system backup. Thousands of files, with an EOF > between each file, and a double EOF + EOT at the end. > > The problem: > They then accidentally overwrote the start of the tape yesterday > with about 1 KB of data, plus EOT. …
Have you approached a commercial recovery service for a quote? A few do tape media. Whether they quote or not may provide a data point about how feasible it may be. Good luck Jerry j...@ieee.org
