Bad Media

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One More Bad Media issue.

I am trying to restore files from a tape.
When I do Inventory for the tape, it says "bad Media" and I am not able to do the catalog....
I am able to restore data from other tapes just fine....
I am using Veritas backup exec 9.o version....
Can anybody please help, and let me know the solution?

Thanks,
Pramod

[Michael_McKenne]

If the header is bad. On-track can recover your tape. It will cost $1000s. They are very good at it.

[Kerm]

Try cleaning the tape drive. Try a different tape drive if you can. Unfortunantly, there may not be a usable solution. If you're using a cartridge media, there is really no specification for cleaning the tape.

For a very long shot, you might try recovering from the tape using Microsoft's backup utility. You might be able to import the tape.

[Shyam_Sundar]

Hi,

This could be an issue with the media, as you are able to read data from other tapes. One suggestion would be to reading the tapes using Windows NTBackup Utility.



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