David E

I have files backed up to LTO tape from a Unix/Linux system (or possibly other legacy systems) and I would like to restore them on my Windows Server 2008 system. Does anyone know of a utility that will facilitate this?

Windows Server 2008 does not support assigning the tape drive to a device designator, so I can't even find a way to simply copy the tape to disk which is probably all I need.

I also have tried several Windows centric solutions such as ntbackup and Backup Exec that can see the drive and read the tape headers, but they only seem to be willing to work with their own tape formats.

I can't believe that nothing like this exists. I suppose that building either a seperately bootable or virtual Linux system would work, but I'd hate to go to all that trouble just to get at a few files, but at this point I will entertain any even semi-reasonable workaround solution.

The only tape drive I have is the internal LTO-4 in my HP DL580 G5 running Window Server 2008 standard.

I tip well ... usually 18-20%, more if the service was phenomenal or the tab was real small. When I buy a wine with my meal I know I'm already paying almost triple what it cost the restaurant to buy that bottle. Quite often my tab for wine costs as much as the food. If the restaurant has a Sommelier or a Maitre d' that actually has wine knowledge and provided that knowledge as a service, that's one thing, bust most waiters have so little training on wines it is pathetic.

On the one hand I feel ripped off that I am giving the waiter this unnecessary windfall by tipping for the food AND the wine, when all they did was take the bottle I asked for from a shelf and remove the cork. On the other hand if I only tip for the food, do they think I'm being cheap and stiffing them on the tip.by giving a tip that appears to be 10%.or less.

I want to know what you think. But if you don't believe in tipping in general I doubt any wisecracks you make will be of much use to me.

Its obvious that the commemorative coins sold in TV ads are worthless pieces of metal. The may look pretty, but they will never be worth anything no matter how long you keep them. So why wouldn't the seller want to dump as much of this junk as possible? Why do they always say "strict limit of 5 coins." Is it because they want to avoid some government/securities regulation? Is it to give the illusion of scarcity? It has always bothered me as something that doesn't make much sense.