Chuck(G)
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Can't tell you offhand, but I think that I look only for certain types of blocks and ignore anything else. May have some recovery logic, so that a bad block doesn't upset things. I had a bunch of tapes that were either incomplete or with errors and I wrote this to handle them. My notes say early 2021, so it's recent--I think one of the tapes in question was part of an LTO-2 multi-volume set, so there was no way that stock restore tools was going to work on an isolated volume.
The fact that I can't recall the details is probably a sign that I need to get out of this business.
The fact that I can't recall the details is probably a sign that I need to get out of this business.