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Password Protected Media

Stelios
Level 3

I run into the following issue:

 

We had an old W2k SBS Server with an LTO Drive and Backup Exec 9.0

 

The backup jobs that they were running on this Server were password protected.

 

The configuration was : 2 Different password protected jobs, running on different hours during night time, were stored on the same tape.

 

Later on a new Windows 2003 Server has been setup, with an LTO3 autoloader (DELL), and Backup Exec 11d.

 

Upon installing Backup Exec 11, Backup Exec 9 was removed (and the SQL Database) from the SBS server, because otherwise we couldn't backup the SBS server with Backup Exec 9.0 installed.

 

Now a need to restore some data from the old tapes occured. When trying to catalog the tapes from Backup excec 11 we got the error that the password is incorrect.We tried every possible  password that was documented with no luck. Is there any workaround on this issue. Can we retrieve or bypass the password  protection somehow, or the tapes are practically useless? 

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