Hello,
I recently got a DLT7000 drive with a tape that I need to pull data off of. I had a SCSI card for an LTO drive in old computer already, so I rebuilt it, got an extra cable, hooked it up and got some fresh DLTIV tapes to test with. SCSI card seems to read the drive and the drive seems to at least cycle correctly.
OS is windows 10 on an i7 desktop, what is my best options for software? Being that DLT is dead, I would really like to just find a free program to pull data off it after confirming drive function with the test tapes.
from my limited knowledge:
Z-datdump - I don't think it supports DLT..?
Bacula - mostly Linux and doesn't really support tapes in free..?
Veeam - mixed info but supposedly could do it. Tried installing the community edition and got errors that computer does not match system requirements. (??)
Seen other options but all big enterprise solutions I'm not going to budget for.
Always found tapes and old hardware fascinating (that craiglist drive post I see on the front page is incredibly cool), but this is far beyond my usual.
While tape seems to possibly be fine (going off drive indicator lights), there is the possibility its trash so I would rather not spend anything if I didn't have to.