| DevDude 2005-12-08, 2:46 am |
| Since the scheduled job has overwritten the beginning of the tape, that tape
would only be able to recover the data past what has been written if you
send it to a company like http://www.ontrack.com and let them rebuild the
data past the overwritten information. So said another way. If you had a
tape that had x backup like say XXXXXXXXXX. And scheduled job Y overwrote
the beginning 20% of the media like so YYXXXXXXXXXX. Then a data recovery
company could for a fee recover the remaining 80% of the data.
However, the good news is that if the second tape hasn't been written to,
then you can catalog that tape and it will have data that is restorable.
Best of luck
Nick
<tony@taylor-townsend.com> wrote in message
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> Using Backup Exec I performed a backup over two tapes. Reimaged a
> machine with the intentions of performing a tape restore upon
> completion. When the server came back up a schedule job began to
> overwrite the tape.
>
> Are bith of these tapes a loss or can I still recover the data from
> them?
>
> Thanks!
>
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