At 08:45 AM 2/19/02 -0500, Rob Ransbottom wrote: >On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, John Griffiths wrote: > >> So we put together a new system, plugged in a new tape drive, inserted our >> last backup and got... >> nothing at all... >> the drives (we were told by the data recovery guys) gradually degrade with >> the heads physically dropping and writing lower and lower on the medium >> no other drive could read the backup. >> even expensive professional data recovery got us bugger all. > >What type of tape drives were you using? >
It was Sun branded for the Sun hardware and yes we've learned about testing recovery on other platforms