Kernel Recovery for Tape

A few weeks ago two of our RAID5 hard drives died taking a good portion on image files we need here, about 30,000 of them to be a little more accurate. I was able to restore all of the images through August 2006, but the full backup tape from September reported "Data is inconsistent" in Backup Exec when I would try to do a catalog job on the tape (I know, hard to believe I'm having trouble with Backup Exec). I found a program called Kernel Recovery for Tape by Nucleus Data Recovery that copies what is on the tape to a .IMG file on the hard drive. You can then open this .IMG file, using their software, to "save" or "recover" you data. I'm running a demo version right now, which allows you to see what is available to recovery, and it seems to have almost all of the data that I've seen so far. The cost to get your data back though is the price of the program, which surprisingly is $299! If I'm able to recover the 8,000 images from September with this it's about the best bargain I've found so far.