Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> I suspect the answer to my questions is "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. This is when I switched to Bacula for
> future backups.
>
> 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.
Bacula does not, to the best of my knowledge, read tapes in other
formats than its own. A "foreign" tape will not have a Bacula label,
and bacula will be unable to mount it.
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