Hi, On 06.10.2005 22:30, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
I suspect the answer to my questions is "no"
I'm quite sure the answer is indded "no".
but wanted to ask before I give up on a batch of tapes created by BackupExec 8.x. Apparently, BackupExec is so "stupid" that if it encounters an error on any tape of a multiple tape volume set, it can't restore anything past the error. For example I had used BackupExec to backup about 40 GB of data to 2 GB DDS tapes. When I attempted to restore after a drive failure, BE encountered an error on tape 5 and refused to continue. I called their help(less) desk and was told that that's just the way it is and hopefully I learned my lesson to not create backup jobs that span multiple volumes in the future.
Great advice. Reminds me of Arkeia.
This is when I switched to Bacula for future backups.
Well done :-)
So anyway, Bacula has been running great and meeting my needs (a big THANK YOU to all the contributors!). But before I throw out that old box of tapes I was just wondering if Bacula could help me recover any data from them.
I don't know how BackupExec stores its data on tape, but uless the data is really valuable I'd not even think about how to extract it. If it is really valuable -> http://www.ontrack.com/
Thanks, Drew
Arno -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
