If your tape drive has a "retention" operation, you might try it on your 
tape of interest.

If a partial restore is useful, you might request restores of files 
*not* in the NetBackup fragment where you see the error.

cheers, wayne

Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) wrote, in part,  on 11/28/2006 11:05 AM:
> I'm running a restore of some "critical" data but it looks like the 
> tape is bad.  Is there anyway to tell Netbackup to continue the 
> restore ignoring the bad sections of the tape?  I've tried multiple 
> drives and each gives me the same "restore incomplete" error / fails 
> with a media read error.