I don't have a DDS-3 tape drive handy, but I do know that anyone recovering the data would need to know the format in which it was written. If you don't know, it may still be possible to recover the data, but it will take longer.
Some possibilities: dump format cpio tar proprietary backup software format proprietary operating system format (HP has one, for instance) Hope this helps, Lauren --- Send mail for the `bblisa' mailing list to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Mail administrative requests to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.
