[SOLVED] File recovery

[Hbb78]

Can you advise the most affordable solution to recover files from Ultrium 3 C7973A drive

 

[Grobe]

Isn't that a device meant for backup purposes? If so, then the most affordable solution is to use the original copy instead.

 

[Hbb78]

That's the issue. It was a backup of a netgear nas ready server that got damaged causing issues to divide and disks

 

[USAFRet]

That's the issue. It was a backup of a netgear nas ready server that got damaged causing issues to divide and disks

So this was the only copy of the data and system? Well...that's not a 'backup'.

But any recovery would depend on exactly what happened.

 

[Hbb78]

The nas fell off a high self and went crooked damaging 1 of the 4 disks. We did have it backed on on a tape but are desperate to find a way to recovery. The nas was our main server and the disk was supposed to be a back up and my whole life of photos are in that tape. How to extract them now to a new storage device?

 

[USAFRet]

The nas fell off a high self and went crooked damaging 1 of the 4 disks. We did have it backed on on a tape but are desperate to find a way to recovery. The nas was our main server and the disk was supposed to be a back up and my whole life of photos are in that tape. How to extract them now to a new storage device?

"damaging 1 of the 4 disks "
Was this a RAID of some sort? What type array? 0, 1, 5, other?

Recovery from the tape would be however the tape device manufacturer says to do it.

 

[fzabkar]

How was the tape drive connected to your NAS? Does the NAS have a plug-in SAS Host Bus Adapter (HBA)? If so, can you remove this adapter and install it inside a desktop PC?

This thread has some ideas for you:
https://community.hpe.com/t5/storee...to-convert-sas-tape-to-scsi-tape/td-p/4677587