<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:24px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490199389442_29234"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490199389442_32385">at BP we used Exabyte. we had standalone, stackers, and robots. </span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490199389442_29235"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490199389442_32382">i'm thinking ebay or used market. then you'd need the software to drive the drive.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490199389442_29235"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490199389442_32383">as each vendor used proprietary formats for their backup/archive knowing which package created the backup is critical.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490199389442_29235"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490199389442_37902">using dd to map block sizes and/or get a hint as to the software used to write the tapes.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490199389442_29235"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490199389442_37903">other software will be needed to skip over the EOV (end of volume) (usually two end of files together) if needed</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Wednesday, March 22, 2017 10:00 AM, Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv2924052385"><div><div dir="ltr">Greg, is there a way to post a picture of the labels/model info on the tape itself, as a solid starting point for investigating options?</div><div class="yiv2924052385yqt1625528528" id="yiv2924052385yqt42943"><div class="yiv2924052385gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv2924052385gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 6:40 AM, Royce Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:royce@tycho.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:royce@tycho.org">royce@tycho.org</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv2924052385gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div>The drive is probably something along these lines:</div><div><br clear="none"></div><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.ebay.com/sch/Tape-Data-Cartridge-Drives/39976/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=%22sun%22+%228mm%22&_sop=15">http://www.ebay.com/sch/Tape- Data-Cartridge-Drives/39976/i. html?_from=R40&_nkw=%22sun%22+ %228mm%22&_sop=15</a><div><br clear="none"></div><div>... and the drive specs seem to be specific about tape capacity, so we'd need to find a reasonably good match to hedge our bets.<br clear="none"><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Modern NetBSD should probably have both hardware support:</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://www.netbsd.org/support/hardware/scsipi.html">https://www.netbsd.org/ support/hardware/scsipi.html</a><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>... as well as software support, using something like one of these options (or Linux methods possible as well):</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://ask.metafilter.com/73464/Restore-from-SunOS-413-dump-tape-backup">http://ask.metafilter.com/ 73464/Restore-from-SunOS-413- dump-tape-backup</a><span class="yiv2924052385HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="none"></font></span></div><span class="yiv2924052385HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Royce</div></div></div><div class="yiv2924052385HOEnZb"><div class="yiv2924052385h5"><div class="yiv2924052385gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv2924052385gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 6:02 AM, Royce Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:royce@tycho.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:royce@tycho.org">royce@tycho.org</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv2924052385gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr">To be more precise ... what is the data capacity of the tapes? :)<span class="yiv2924052385m_-5799592075956560971HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span><div><br clear="none"></div><div><span class="yiv2924052385m_-5799592075956560971HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Royce</font></span><div><div class="yiv2924052385m_-5799592075956560971h5"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv2924052385gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv2924052385gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 5:57 AM, Royce Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:royce@tycho.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:royce@tycho.org">royce@tycho.org</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv2924052385gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr">I don't have the tape drive, but I can put out some feelers. What size are the tapes?<span class="yiv2924052385m_-5799592075956560971m_-8876135478114503567HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span><div><br clear="none"></div><div><span class="yiv2924052385m_-5799592075956560971m_-8876135478114503567HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Royce</font></span><span><br clear="none"></span><div class="yiv2924052385gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv2924052385gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Greg Schmitz <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:greg@amipa.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:greg@amipa.org">greg@amipa.org</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv2924052385gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><br clear="none">
A local library made an inquiry yesterday about retrieving files from an 8mm backup tape recorded using Sun OS 4.1.3. I'm assuming it was made using an Exabyte drive of one sort or another. Does anybody have an old working drive or know of someone locally who might be able to retrieve the files?<br clear="none"></blockquote></div></div></div></div>
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