restoring foreign DAT-Media - help!

Hello!
I'm searching for a program(or a simple way), which can read and restore
Data from a DAT - Media (4mm DDS3), but I dont know how the Data has been
stored on the Media (which program,...).
I found DATMAN - but it only works with W9x and WinME (I use W2k-Server).
Besides, it costs quite alot, and i plan to use it only once - so perhaps
you know some programm, which fits my needs.
regards,
Mathias

Mathias Legerer wrote:

Hello!
I'm searching for a program(or a simple way), which can read and restore
Data from a DAT - Media (4mm DDS3), but I dont know how the Data has been
stored on the Media (which program,...).

I'd go for Linux first. Use the dd command to copy the tape to a file,
and then use the strings command on that file to find out if the data is
plaintext or compressed.


Thomas

the problem is, that our server is running on W2k-Server. And I dont have
another machine, that has a DAT-Drive.

Perhaps I can use a Linux-StartCD (Knopix) in order to read the tape. But I
can just do this, when nobodys working in my company (weekend)...

sb got another, a little bit simpler solution?


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Mathias Legerer wrote:

Hello!
I'm searching for a program(or a simple way), which can read and restore
Data from a DAT - Media (4mm DDS3), but I dont know how the Data has
been
stored on the Media (which program,...).

I'd go for Linux first. Use the dd command to copy the tape to a file,
and then use the strings command on that file to find out if the data is
plaintext or compressed.


Thomas

"Mathias Legerer" wrote in message
...
Hello!
I'm searching for a program(or a simple way), which can read and restore
Data from a DAT - Media (4mm DDS3), but I dont know how the Data has been
stored on the Media (which program,...).
I found DATMAN - but it only works with W9x and WinME (I use W2k-Server).
Besides, it costs quite alot, and i plan to use it only once - so perhaps
you know some programm, which fits my needs.
regards,
Mathias


You may want to check out Novastor, they have several products that can be
used to read or identify tape formats.

Rob