Toni Mueller wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, 05.03.2007 at 17:48:45 -0600, Jacob Yocom-Piatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
have 2 sony SDX3-100C AIT3 100 GB tapes here that have bad blocks and
will not read in our tape changer. i may need to get these sent to a
data recovery shop, but would prefer not to be viciously reamed w.r.t.
the cost.
I'm interested in your reasons to choose AIT as your backup medium.
"it wasn't me, it was the one-armed man!"
i didn't pick the backup medium, it was already in use when i got here.
suffice it to say that some companies that code win2000 applications are
too lazy to update their codebase to run on more recent versions of
windows or to backup/archive to any media but tape. the AIT3 jukebox we
have came as part of the hardware package for this software, and only
now, after having a fairly large tape archive set, have we encountered
any tapes that give errors on read. seems like a MINOR problem with the
software that it makes a non-redundant archive to tape without integrity
checking the medium beforehand...
we found someone who is doing the recovery for 750 USD / tape (maximum
price) with evaluation at no cost. if this is tax, please let me know
offlist.
cheers,
jake
Best,
--Toni++
