Hi everyone, I promised to send you the program I used to recover ADSM volumes without having a valid DB.
As I said before, I can not guarantee this will work for all tapes. It worked for me on an AIX 4.3 machine and restoring form 3.<something> ADSM, from DLT volumes. A former coworker wrote this with some code he got from IBM, if I can remember correctly. There was some minor tweaking needed to restore NT volumes, but it is possible. Bear in mind that this is NOT to be used instead of good DB backups, emergecy use only. You have no idea if the files you are restoring are active or inactive. I've created a sourceforge.net project around this so anyone interested can participate in further developments/fixing. The project is called adsmtape (http://sourceforge.net/projects/adsmtape). I will be adding a tar file to the Files section for thos who do not want to use the CVS system. If you need any assistance, try using the forums on sourceforge, or mailing me directly. I will try to help everyone I can. Best of luck, Thorhallur
