[Info-vax] Exabyte tapes to disk

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In article <7eaf2ab1-64ff-45e7-9a2d-2c5378d3510b at k26g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>, Chris <cdandrea27 at yahoo.com> writes:
>We have 8mm exabyte tapes with archived data on them. Our old vax
>machines could read/write these tapes with no problem with exabyte
>tape drives (SCSI connection). We would like to get the data off of
>these tapes and eventually onto disks (so that the data is more easily
>accessible, don't have to mess with tape drives etc.). However,
>whenever we use our vax to copy the data to disk, the files are not
>readable by other machines (e.g. there is a bunch of garbage before
>the data). We have been unable to find a way to use any other machine
>to copy the data from the tape to disk. Has anyone had any success
>with something like this? What worked?

The questions begging to be asked:

1. How was the data stored on the Exabytes in the first place?
[_] VMS Backup? [_] Something else?

2. How are you "copying" the data from the Exabytes to disk?
[_] VMS Backup? [_] Copy? [_] Byzantine Monks?

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