2012/6/17 Arun Khan <knura9 at gmail.com>: > Posting here in the hope that some one may have encountered problems > with recovery from backups on LTO4 media and found a solution. > > Back ups on FujiFilm LTO4 media (800/1600). > > Archives created using tar -cf /dev/nst0. The tapes were fine when > the archives were created (tested by extracting random sample files > from them) but something went wrong in storage (no physical damage). > > Now a few LTO4 tapes are giving I/O errors when I try to extract data > from them. Tried dd_rescue and that too fails giving I/O errors. > > I am wondering if there are any service providers, to extract > the data out of the magnetic tapes in a fashion similar to "dead" hard > disks. Please share info if you know of any such provider. norman ibas? it's a bit expensive operation of course .. -- Eero