On Wednesday 14 February 2007 18:13, Alan Brown wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Jason King wrote:
> > Now my tape still shows that I have put 100G of
> > data on it...but the catalog shows that no job actually ran.
>
> Not quite, it shows no job completed - the attributes are despooled to
> tape after the job finishes.

A file's attributes are actually written to the Volume *before* the file's 
data.

>
> > Question is, can I update the catalog with the data on the tape?
>
> bscan will do it, but you won't be able to resume the job.
>
> > Can I "ERASE" that job from the tape so that the next backup job will
> > take place at the beginning position of that errored out backup job so
> > as not to wast 100G worth of tape?
>
> Only if the failed job is the only one on the tape - in which case all you
> need to do is purge the entire thing and start over.
>
> If not, then no.
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