Re: OT: data recovery - bad blocks on AIT3 tapes

2007-03-07 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt 

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++

Re: OT: data recovery - bad blocks on AIT3 tapes

2007-03-06 Thread Toni Mueller 
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.


Best,
--Toni++

OT: data recovery - bad blocks on AIT3 tapes

2007-03-05 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt 
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.


any suggestions on good data recovery places in the US?

cheers,
jake

Re: OT: data recovery - bad blocks on AIT3 tapes

2007-03-05 Thread Joachim Schipper 
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 05:48:45PM -0600, Jacob Yocom-Piatt 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.
 
 any suggestions on good data recovery places in the US?

No, but do consider just how badly you need those couple of blocks. If
99.99% of the data is recoverable, it might not be worth it. (Then
again, if the only backup for some critical production system is on that
tape, and it's utterly unreadable...)

Joachim