[Info-vax] Exabyte tapes to disk

[Jeffrey H. Coffield]

Chris wrote:
> 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?
> 
> Thanks for all your help,
> Chris

I recently did this for a customer. I used the following commands:

	$ mount/for mka200:
	$ copy mka200:*.* []

The data could then be recovered by doing:

	$ backup xyz.bck/save []

We then zipped and burned the files to DVD's.

Jeff Coffield
http://www.digitalsynergyinc.com