On 30 Oct 2006 at 6:45, Mathew Brown wrote: > On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:41:42 -0500, "Dan Langille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > On 30 Oct 2006 at 5:33, Mathew Brown wrote: > > > > > I know this might be a strange question, but what format does Bacula > > > use to write to tape? > > > > Google is my friend. Google is also your friend: > > > > http://www.google.com/search?c&q=site:www.bacula.org+tape+format > > > > > > > When using tar, you can view the contents of a > > > tape using the tar command. What about when using Bacula? > > > > You can use bls: > > > > http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Volume_Utility_Tools.html > > > > > I need to know this because one of my customers needs a backup of the > > > tapes (the ones with his) that we use in our environment and I wanted > > > to make sure that he could read the contents of the tape if I used > > > Bacula. Does he have to have Bacula installed? Thanks for your help. > > > > He wants a copy of existing backup tapes?
> Thanks a lot for your reply Dan. Bacula is going to be used to backup > our configuration, our systems and our database. The customer has the > right to request a copy of the database contents and this is what I'm > trying to provide them, so I'm checking to see if this is possible > using Bacula. Ahhh, I see. You can give them the bextract binary. Someone else might want to comment on how to copy an existing archive. -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
