System
upgrades and tape conversion tools
Computers eventually reach the end of
their useful life, and this can often means 100s or 1000s of
tapes that are no longer compatible with the new computer system.
MMPC can be used to read, and if relevant convert these tapes
to a new compatible format. Tape conversion may be required
for two reasons:
- To do a single upgrade from the old
system to the new
- To keeps existing backup tapes, and
recover data as required over the next few years
Programs such as MMPC are required
because not many systems provide compatible system interchange
tape formats. An NT system can not read an IBM labelled tape,
or a Unix tape, and it would be difficult to restore a PC backup
tape on an HP system.
Every system has it's own structure
of tape, but MMPC can bridge the gaps, and provided there
is a suitable hardware tape drive (SCSI), it can probably read
the tape in a logical way. It is a powerful migration tool.
Reading is often only the start, but
MMPC has an optional feature of
a Record Reformatter, which can
process packed fields, as well as most date format fields, and
many other powerful manipulation tools to make a file suitable
for typical PC use. Brief features of MMPC
- Reads tapes with any logical tape
format
- Retains original filenames
- Handles all types of tape
- ASCII/EBCDIC conversion
- Over 50 logical tape formats converted
- All SCSI tape drives handled, eg Exabyte,
DAT etc
- Works on 95/98/NT4.0
- Records can be restructured as required,
included packed fields
- Full customer support
Free fully functional 30 day demo package
can be downloaded
