>>>>> On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:04:27 +0200, Marc Brueckner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said:
Marc> Hi there, Marc> I am running Bacula in a productive environment for almost two year now Marc> and I am totally happy with it. Marc> Now I have a little problem an perhaps one of you can help me. Marc> (For now this is a hypothetical question.) Marc> I need to restore a backup from a write protected tape. Marc> Bacula won't mount a write protected tape. bextract or bscan neither. Marc> "So switch off the write protect of your tape !" some one would say. Marc> The answer is " I can't" because the hardware protects the tape from Marc> being written. Marc> The tape was written by a DLT VS80 Streamer, now I ve upgraded to a DLT Marc> VS160. Marc> If I insert a VS80 written tape its automaticly read-only. So if my VS80 Marc> streamer dies on day I have no chance Marc> to read the tapes by Bacula. Marc> I already tryed to dd if=/dev/st0 of=/tmp/tape.dump and tryed to Marc> bextract from the filedevice. Marc> btape then is able to read the label but bextract terminates with errors. Marc> Backup:/etc/bacula # bextract /tmp/ISLBHV_Woche_0 /restore Marc> bextract: butil.c:151 Using device: /tmp for reading. Marc> bextract: Ready to read from volume "ISLBHV_Woche_0" on device /tmp. Marc> bextract: bextract Error: block.c:248 Expected block-id BB01 or BB02, Marc> got . Buffer discarded. Marc> bextract: bextract Error: block.c:248 Expected block-id BB01 or BB02, Marc> got . Buffer discarded. Marc> bextract: bextract Error: Read error on Record Header /tmp: Success Marc> 0 files restored. Marc> I would be happy to have a solution because if my VS80 dies I will need it. You need to use bcopy to copy from a Bacula tape to disk. __Martin ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
