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John_Cox_3
Level 3
14 years ago

Unerase a Quick Erase

I mistakenly ran a quick erase under Backup Exec v 12.5 (Rev 2213).  Is there any way to recover (unerase) these tapes?

Any help appreciated.

John Cox
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  • Ken_Putnam's avatar
    Ken_Putnam
    14 years ago
    Unfortunately there is no way to recover the tapes as the quick erase deletes everything from the media

    Not correct

    A LONG erase deletes every thing  on the media (Actually it overwrites it with random bits)

    A QUICK erase re-writes the header


    But you still cannot retrieve anything from such a tape  using standard access (BackupExec or NTBackup)

    A Data Recovery service may be able to get the data back, tho -

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  • AmolB's avatar
    AmolB
    Moderator
    14 years ago
    Hi John

      Unfortunately there is no way to recover the tapes as the quick erase deletes everything from the media
  • Ken_Putnam's avatar
    Ken_Putnam
    Level 6
    14 years ago
    Unfortunately there is no way to recover the tapes as the quick erase deletes everything from the media

    Not correct

    A LONG erase deletes every thing  on the media (Actually it overwrites it with random bits)

    A QUICK erase re-writes the header


    But you still cannot retrieve anything from such a tape  using standard access (BackupExec or NTBackup)

    A Data Recovery service may be able to get the data back, tho -
  • John_Cox_3's avatar
    John_Cox_3
    Level 3
    14 years ago
    Ken,

    Thanks for the clarification. The data is not (currently) so critical as to warrant paying a data recovery service. 

    It would be a nice feature though if you could unerase a quick erase... :(

    Thanks.
  • teiva-boy's avatar
    teiva-boy
    Level 6
    14 years ago
    It's very possible there is a 3rd party application for this?  I mean they have it for Flash cards, HDD's, floppy's and the like.  But if you quick formatted a HDD, you'd have to pay something to get the data back...  Same goes for this tape, or any future tapes.