On 20-Dec-05, at 6:43 PM, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Greetings list,
I have a volume with data on it that I need to recover (using
bextract). The volume has been relabeled since it was last written
- consequently, Bacula reports that the volume has no Jobs on it
(per bls).
Is there any way to recover the data on this volume?
That depends on what kind of volume it is.
Tape - you could try to rewind, write a bacula label, some blocks
of empty data and no EOF. The trick would be to overwrite the
existing EOF/EOT marks and thus allow your tape drive to read to
where there still is the old bacula data. You would surely loose
some data from the beginning of the volume, and perhaps you would
need a hand-crafted version of bextract, but it should be possible.
Depending on the type of tape, by the way.
Sorry, forgot to mention that the volume in question is a tape.
So, the answer I suppose, is that there is no easy way to force
bextract to ignore the EOT and continue on, where it will surely find
more begin-job blocks?
Thanks Arno,
-Luke
-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files
for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes
searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK!
http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click
_______________________________________________
Bacula-users mailing list
Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
