I am trying to recover data from tapes that have been in storage for 5
years. I have tapes and have identified that they were created with
NetWorker [release 5 something]. I do not have any of the hardware that was
used as the server and clients. All I have are the tapes. I have installed
NetWorker 7.3 on a Fedora Core 5 machine configured with a Quantum DLT 8mm tape.

I have been able to perform a few commands [scanner, nsrck] that have gotten
me to be able to recognize data on the tape using nwrecover. When I try to
recover, I get the following:

recover: recover: Total estimated disk space needed for recover is 20 GB.
recover: Recovering 225230 files within / into /home/recover
recover: Requesting 225230 file(s), this may take a while...
recover: NSR server `myserver': Authentication failed or no valid
authentication methods supported by both client and server
recover: waiting 30 seconds then retrying

I am not sure what is being authenticated, nor do I know how to fix this.
Any suggestions on how to fix this, or even better how to best recover the
data from the tapes?

Thanks,
Jim

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