Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.snarked.org!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 23:39:26 -0500 Sender: Dennis Boone From: drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) Subject: Re: Unreadable LAVC Tapes Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime References: <330edcad-95e5-4b08-91a8-236e494b9022n@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: tin/2.4.5-20201224 ("Glen Albyn") (FreeBSD/12.2-RELEASE-p6 (amd64)) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 23:39:27 -0500 Lines: 21 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-S5VH6dtvgkz/7iitbdFSZmciNUBEWjXy65eei6o1FAOg+sdTppk66rptmw26GmGC9GM8O0mKuIdUA7G!DnS31fNOvTuCaw+m23oAk+iunk9mPuHgNTtEJCb+XXxBLXd1jiyASF0+/XGHFEzRonNthm8= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1996 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.prime:387 > 12/30/2005 05:45 AM 10,416,478 r19p4-bad-src.tap > 12/30/2005 05:23 AM 23,748,048 tape-brms-format.tap Do Jim and I have all of these? I think perhaps not? > So first I tried 'tape-brms-format.tap' and got this: > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > OK 23:27:21 0.215 0.000 > backup_restore @@ -mt 0 -index > [BACKUP_RESTORE Rev. 19.4.5 Copyright (c) Prime Computer, Inc. 1985] Try ARCHIVE_RESTORE. BRMS had a couple of different tools and tape format variations. These seem to have been written with ARCHIVE instead of BACKUP. I have an ARCHIVE tape that doesn't restore correctly -- I get the heads of the files, but not the tails. Not sure if it's because the restore is hosed, or if the save was incomplete. BRMS was a heap of fertilizer, and everyone knew it. I regret using it to save some things back then. De