HP dat 24 tape

[pclab]

Hey Guys

Got a situation here.
A client brought an old HP server and a bad SCSI HDD.
The PC have a HP Dat 24 tape drive and he claims that the tapes should have backups on them (he brought 5 tapes). But he doesn't know how the backups were made, which software, nothing....
I tried to use Z-Dat Dump software to try to access the files, but it says that the tapes are empty.....
Does anyone know how can I "mount" the tape drive, so that Rstudio or similar can try to find data on them?

Thanks

 

[Blizzard]

If the backed up OS was Windows Server you can try to catalog the tape using MS backup from a similar version of Windows server. If not then see if the customer has a CD for a backup program called Tapeware. Tapeware was bundled with some older HP Tape Drives and supported Windows and Linux. I'm not positive but I think the company that made Tapeware was purchased by Barracuda Networks. There is a free downwload on the Brothersoft website but I'm not sure how safe that site is. There are so many options for backup software this is just a shot in the dark.
Sorry I don't know of any way to mount the tape. hopefully someone else has more/better info for you.

 

[pclab]

Thanks Blizzard.
The problem is that the guy doesn't also know how it was working....
What a mess.....

 

[lcoughey]

It probably wasn't working.

 

[pclab]

Most probably.....
I wonder why they should have so many blank tapes :mrgreen: :mrgreen: