donhobson Posted January 30, 2004 Report Share Posted January 30, 2004 I recently inherited 20 backup tapes going back to 1997 that were created with MAC Retrospect 2.0. I have the SCSI DAT tape drive but the MAC and all storage set Catalogs are gone. I've loaded the Software on a PowerMac 7100, connected the DAT drive and Retrospect "communciates" with the drive. When I insert a tape, it "works" a while loading and showing "busy" in the SCSI status window. When loaded the SCSI status window indicates that the contents of the tape are unknown, i.e. Retrospect doesn't appear to recognize the storage set. Without recognizing a storage set, the TOOLs: Create Storage Set Catalog can't build or repair a catalog. a) If the tape drive is working correctly and the heads are reading the tapes, and the tapes themselves are still good then is there a software setting that might have been used to create the backups that needs to be changed to make the tape contents recognizable, e.g. compression or encryption? if the tapes are good but the drive is failing to read the tapes, then is there anyway to retrieve files? Regards, Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted February 10, 2004 Report Share Posted February 10, 2004 Hi If the error is the same on all tapes chances are the tape drive heads are damaged or out of allignment. If you can, try another tape drive. Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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