Joe writes:
>
> Hello Everyone,
> Does anyone know of a way to get data that is on a reel tape past another
> job that written to this tape.  I have a set of 4 tapes of archive records
> and the 4th tape was carelessly used by a past employee on another tape job.
> Now I am left with trying to restore as manyrecords as possible, and
> everything that I have tried so far is failing.  I am trying to use FCOPY
> with SKIPEOF=+(I have gone from 1 to 12 on this parm), and I can't get
> passed what was last written to tape.

Assuming this is a STORE tape set, then:

   1) a reel-to-reel tape drive can read past the EOFs easily,
      and past the logical "end of tape" that the new job may have
      accidentally written;

   2) A DDS/DAT drive cannot read past the end-of-tape that was written
      by the new job.  There are two solutions to this, however.

Regardless of the above, STORE won't like things much, but there are
several solution paths:

   a) if CMSTORE, the old GETFILE might work...if it will run on MPE/iX.
      If it won't run, contact me.

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   b) if NMSTORE, we have a reluctant service to restore files from damaged
      STORE tapes.  See http://www.allegro.com/tape_recovery.html
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