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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
  • Ken_Putnam's avatar
    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 -