From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Siano,
James C
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 9:30 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Could you read my tape? I threw it out my car
accidentally and you caught it. BackupExec/Netbackup
If I lost a tape – say SDLT or LTO-x – that was
written with Backexc 9.0 and someone on this forum found it….had
the write hardware…and either a version of BackupExec 9 or greater, or,
an instance of Netbackup…..could you read my tape? The tape is
non-encrypted.
è Yes we could read it with backup exec 9 or better
Could you read that tape with the “ntbackup”
iteration on a plain jane Windows XP workstation given hardware was available?
Maybe – My fuzzy memory
says that at some level the backupexec format could no longer be read by
ntbackup.
Could you do it if the tape was encrypted --- and had as
long as necessary to attempt to crack the encryption.
For most folks no. But I would
never bet against a really sharp person at math with the right compute hardware.
Thanks.
